Software Lead Weekly

Making Software: A Reference Manual for People Who Design and Build Software
5 minutes read.

What a beautiful design and execution to launch a technical book. The geek in me is envious of the concept and skills. Maybe it will inspire you to try out and make stuff you think is beautiful.

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When You Ask a Senior Engineer for a Deadline
1 minutes read.

My humble effort to help you start the weekend with a smile.

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AI Adoption Needs Light, Not Hope
5 minutes read.

For humans to change their habits, they require a lot of practice and experimentation. Being effective or efficient is not the target when you begin. Executives often look for the result, the outcome, the transformation. Figure out a path to get there while building confidence that the team is becoming comfortable with changing the way they work.

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The Old Way of Scaling Teams Is Dead (Thread)
3 minutes read.

Ryo Lu's (designer at Cursor) take on the software industry is clear: "small teams, fluid boundaries, everyone working in the same tools. roles still matter but as overlapping concerns with different depths, not separate silos. tools handle execution, you handle vision." -- No doubt you could scale products from MVP to small scale easily. Products that will reach massive PMF will require engineers to help scale the solution in ways that the tools are not good enough (yet).

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Ruthless Prioritization While the Dog Pees on the Floor
9 minutes read.

"If you don’t know what one or two 10x tasks you should be working on, then identifying that is your highest priority. Otherwise you are certainly not prioritizing properly; the entire company is misusing their time." -- This sounds trivial or almost obvious, yet very rarely do I see people do that. Jason Cohen wrote a great post on how to prioritize your efforts.

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Whenever I Feel Lost, I Watch This (Video)
2 minutes read.

You can feel how emotional Elon Musk gets when pitching his dream. Finding inspiration can lead to fulfillment that makes you excited about your craft, helping you push through challenges and difficulties.

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How to Articulate Yourself Intelligently
7 minutes read.

So many great gems in this post by Dan Koe if you wish to increase your influence, open doors, and increase your luck surface area: "If you want to articulate yourself intelligently, you need a pool of 8-10 of your biggest ideas that can be connected to almost any topic. Then, when it’s time to write or speak in any situation, you have a starting point that you’ve already thought through hundreds of times before."

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@shaneparrish: The best are always learning. Read like crazy. Think alone. Keep a journal. Write stuff down the moment you see it. Review regularly. Memorize the big ideas to fluency. Attack your best ideas. And never get high on your own supply. You don't have to be gifted. You do have to be deliberate.