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Will Larson
will is currently CTO at Carta he's been a software engineering leader at stripe Uber and Comm
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Communication6 steps
Energy-Aligned Writing
Write only what energises you, only what overlaps your job, and publish nearly all of it.
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Productivity5 steps
Imperfect Metrics as Education
Report an imperfect engineering metric on purpose, then use every question about it to educate upward.
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Strategy5 steps
Stocks-and-Flows Pipeline Diagnosis
Model any org process as stocks and flows, then find where reality disagrees with the model.
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Strategy5 steps
The Boring Engineering Strategy
Write the strategy down, get the diagnosis honest, then constrain options so energy goes to what matters.
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Leadership4 steps
The Honest-Applicable-Reversible Values Test
Three tests that separate values which drive decisions from values that just describe your self-image.
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Leadership5 steps
The Shared-Fate EM/PM Pair
Give the eng manager and PM the same performance rating, and make them understand before they argue.
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Resources in their episodes
- Accelerate
- Airbnb
- Amazon
- Amazon Web Services
- An Elegant Puzzle
- Apple Podcasts
- Calm
- Carta
- Don't Think of an Elephant!
- DORA
- DX
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
- Google Cloud
- Google Reader
- Google Search
- Greenhouse
- How Big Things Get Done
- IBM
- Java
- Lenny's Podcast
- Medium
- Microsoft Azure
- Netflix
- OneSchema
- Python
- Ruby
- Slack
- SPACE
- Spotify
- Stripe
- Substack
- Technology Strategy Patterns
- The Crux
- The Phoenix Project
- The Value Flywheel Effect
- Top Chef
- Uber
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