TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

You don’t need to be a scientist to understand the impacts of factory farming: if you’ve been near a North Carolina hog waste lagoon or driven past the enormous cattle feedlot in Coalinga, CA, the smell travels for miles. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time? Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson.

Technical Review 217

Technical Review Culture Software Review Part-Time VPE 217

Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.

Engineering 145

Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach Engineering Management 145

Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

must improve the maintainability and readability of the codebase for future travels, and 3. must save enough future time or pain, in a reasonable enough payback period (see above), to have been worth the opportunity cost. Interested in reading more about engineering management? Read my article on Becoming a VP of Engineering.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Software Engineering Tools 98

Honeycomb

JULY 14, 2023

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering Weak Development Team Energy 98