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Engineering culture
What a team rewards, tolerates, and stays silent about. Culture shows up in the incident review and the first month of a new hire long before it shows up on a values slide.
Notes on Engineering culture
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07 Sep 2026 Leadership The First Month Isn’t for Being Right A new leader is expected to show impact fast. The actual work in the first month is listening and mapping, not shipping — and the discipline is aiming that patience at yourself, for once, instead of a team you already knew. -
17 Aug 2026 Leadership Silence Is Not a Bandwidth Problem Senior hiring processes ask a lot of a candidate and often give nothing back. The silence isn’t a bandwidth problem — it’s a preview of how a company treats people once it no longer needs anything from them. -
16 Jul 2026 Leadership The People Who Built It A company let go of the people who built it and called it a new chapter. The org chart forgot them, but everyone still watching learned exactly what their loyalty was worth.
From the desk
Keep the argument going?
This desk is where the engineering and the fiction argue it out. If a line here stuck with you — or you’d take the other side — I’d genuinely like to hear it.