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Engineering Manager
today

What If Your Chaos Is Actually Your Superpower?

What If Your Chaos Is Actually Your Superpower? The realization that changed how I see my leadership style (and why trying to be calm was making me worse). I send messages then solve them myself. I prototype instead of spec'ing. I jump on problems before thinking them through. Everyone else seems so measured and I felt like I was failing. Then a friend asked: "Isn't that just a superpower?" This is about finding your own management style instead of trying to be someone you're not.

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Engineering Manager
1 weeks ago

You're Only Visible When Something Breaks

The Invisible Work Problem: Why engineering managers only get noticed when something breaks (and why that's actually the job). Your team crushes it, and it looks like they're just naturally great. Your team struggles, and everyone wonders what you do all day. This is about the invisible work that makes teams perform, the imposter syndrome that comes with it, and why there's no test suite for management.RetryClaude does not have the ability to run the code it generates yet.

leadership
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