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Why I’m Releasing My People Manager Training Series
Over the course of my more than 15 years as a CTO, I’ve learned many technical lessons. But the lesson that has mattered the most, and has had the greatest impact on the teams I’ve led, is this: strong teams are built by strong managers leaders. That idea didn’t come from the world of tech…
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Cover Letters as a Differentiator
I’ve been doing a lot of hiring lately. So I’ve been thinking about how people can differentiate themselves from the pack. It’s an interesting proposition when there are so many people out there with great work and life experience that can help them contribute to and enhance a team. One of the trends I have…
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Getting to a Middle Ground Between Monolith and Microservices
It’s difficult to think about micro services without considering the large management overhead the goes with it. In many cases, a micro service architecture might even make technical sense and not business sense. These two are completely separate but very important considerations. Microservices comes with more technical management because they require actual components to deploy,…
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The Easiest Way to Build a Hiring Pipeline
One of the most challenging parts of building a business is finding great people. I think that’s probably a universal struggle that businesses have. Everyone knows that great people are out there. But finding them and attracting them is decidedly difficult. But what if there was an easier way to find them? Well I’m glad…
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Interviewing Programmers When You Barely Are One
I suck at writing code. It’s just not one of my strengths. This begs the question, how can one do a good job of finding someone who is good at the thing (programming) you aren’t? I know I’m not the only in this position. But this isn’t a question of finding people for a job…
