Sitemap - 2025 - Product Driven Newsletter
How I Vet a Technical Co-Founder
What Kind of CTO Are You Becoming?
How to Build Feedback Loops Your Engineers Will Actually Use
500 Hours, 20 Years: What I Learned Writing the Engineering Leadership Playbook
When Engineers Aren’t the Bottleneck Anymore, Your Process Better Catch Up
You Can’t Build for Users You Don’t Understand
The Feedback Ladder: From Code Review to Customer Insights
Product-Led Doesn’t Mean Feature-Rich
What It Means to Be an AI-Ready Engineering Leader
If You’re Missing This, Your Best Engineers Are Quietly Checking Out
Lesson Plan: Challenge the Plan Respectfully
Manual Testing Is Too Slow. Scripted Testing Is Too Fragile. Here’s What’s Next.
Why Visibility Breaks Down as Engineering Teams Scale
How to De-Risk Early-Stage Startups
The Five Modes of a Modern CTO (And Why Most Only Master One)
You Don’t Need a PM to Own the Product
How to Scale Yourself as a Builder-Turned-Leader
You’re Hitting Every Metric. And Yet…
How to Build Empathy on Teams That Never Meet the User
Your Team Might Be Doing All the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons
"I Could Never Speak at Conferences" and Other Things Tech Experts Tell Themselves
You’re Not the Bottleneck Anymore
The Tech Leader's Guide to Managing Up, Down, and Across
What “Done” Should Actually Mean on Product Engineering Teams
When to Kill Your "Working" Product and Start Over
Engineering Managers Hold the Key to Effective Team Collaboration
Why Technical Founders Fail at Sales
Engineering Teams Need Craftsmen, Not Just Artists or Scientists
Engineer to Founder: The Critical Mindset Shift Most Developers Miss
Why Most CTOs Fail: The Hidden Trust Crisis Between Tech Leaders and CEOs
Why Your Developers Should Talk Directly to Customers: Lessons from AWS
Why The Best Developers Are Already Great at Sales (They Just Don't Know It Yet)
Why Your Most Logical Engineers Struggle with Ownership (And How to Fix It)
Great Engineers Make Poor CTOs: A Hard Truth About Technical Leadership
Your Best Engineers Could Be Your Biggest Communication Liability (And How to Fix It)
The Hidden Scaling Crisis Every Startup CTO Must Overcome