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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

The Second Mover Success Formula

Are You a Peacetime or Wartime CTO? Your Company Needs Both