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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

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At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. It is not ok for heartbeats to be a special case, constrained to tightly controlled windows. All this within a year of our first Integrations Engineer Paul Osman joining the team!

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

At the start of lockdown, many companies doubled down on their butts-in-seats culture with Zoom surveillance and other creeptastic endeavors. It is not ok for heartbeats to be a special case, constrained to tightly controlled windows. All this within a year of our first Integrations Engineer Paul Osman joining the team!

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

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Departments or teams can burn through an infinite amount of energy re-litigating these decisions with stakeholders if the exec team doesn’t tell the story of these tradeoffs from above and make clear that the avenue for strategy concerns is mostly up, not sideways. However, I learned to leave myself more slack to respond to unexpected things.