Hello — and welcome to what's now one newsletter. If you're arriving from subscriptions to Engineering & Careering or Well-Rounded Tech Lead, 👋 - don’t worry, its the same person, new place. If you're brand new, welcome.
Two threads. Way of the Tech Lead (wayofthetechlead.com) about the inner life of technical leadership, a shift in world-view that happens when you go from being good at the work to leading people who do it. Drawing equally on old wisdom and stories from thirty years of leading teams. Engineering & Careering continues as it always has: architecture thinking, engineering practice, and the craft of building software and careers in it. There’s some good stuff coming up, promise.
One newsletter, cos it was getting complicated.
The latest piece on Way of the Tech Lead is "Where You Begin" and it's the one I'd most like you to take a look at. A story about arriving into a broken situation: a team whose software crashed a factory floor, morale in pieces, and a ban on releases until quality could be restored. And the trap I nearly fell into — wishing I was starting from somewhere better. Read it here →
And if it connects with something in your own experience I’d love to hear. Just hit reply.
Dan