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Review: Executive Engineering

A quick disclaimer: Jack Danger, the author of Executive Engineering , is a friend and former colleague. We worked together as fellow engineers and engineering managers at Square, and our paths have crossed serendipitously in subsequent...

Smart Home Babel

When we were preparing to move into our current home, I took advantage of the renovations we were undertaking to lean into the smart home revolution, to build out a network of interconnected components that...

Comparing Like Things

While on vacation, I was sitting in a hotel lounge, with some sports show in the background playing on mute. From the overly animated expressions and the screens of stats and the chron banner though,...

Upwards Status Updates

An inevitability when conducting 1:1s is providing status updates. It's a safe default; if there isn't a set agenda or a set of immediate problems to solve, and neither party...