Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

Katie’s journey into management. Transitioning others into management and bumps along the way. The “dark side” of management…is it real? Developing leaders from within the organization. Katie’s favorite resources on leadership & management. Buffer.com’s Engineering Career Framework.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Find out 8 insightful conferences for CTOs that you should attend in 2019. As a CTO of UruIT, a nearshore development agency , I’ve seen first-hand how being a lifelong learner can lead to exciting opportunities for me and for my company. If you’re a CTO, I highly recommend attending a conference for all of the above reasons.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 8, 2019

In this episode, we’re talking to Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall (CTO of Songkick) about the path from programmer to manager. Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. That sort of led me into a wider management role. Episode 15.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Marcus: You know I hear so many people talk about The Manager’s Path as being just foundational to them and I just can’t help but start with a question just really broadly, what inspired that book? Camille: Yeah, so I am the head platform engineering at Two Sigma, which is a quantitative hedge fund here in New York City.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: Yeah and it’s… The thing about, I say this because my coach told me this long time ago, feedback is a gift.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Michael: Yeah and it’s… The thing about, I say this because my coach told me this long time ago, feedback is a gift.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am a CTO type. Became a software developer, senior software engineer, engineering manager, and then CTO to a few companies. I know, but I really thought that I was a fantastic CTO. But I think that was the organization I created was people who could just do the hours because I only had two hands.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I feel like you know I think when I come into organizations or even actually if we just think about who our models are like the Steve Jobs, the Steve Ballmer’s, the Jeff Bezos. And then what you saw was sort of an interesting tack of crisis management. and so like you know as a manager, I have a director who is my boss.

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