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2026 41

  1. An Engineering Manager’s crazy year
  2. More output, less progress?
  3. Your engineers deserve a REAL chance
  4. 5 things every EM must read/listen/watch
  5. 12 things I miss since coding died
  6. How to answer "Just use AI and move faster"
  7. The 4 engineering management archetypes
  8. The broken windows theory of coding agents
  9. Take that demotion
  10. The Engineering Manager's role is under attack (again)
  11. When non-devs open PRs
  12. Extreme Programming 1999->2026
  13. The 3 product battles 84% of EMs lose
  14. The death and revival of the hands-on Engineering Manager
  15. 3 things top 1% teams do differently
  16. Charting your team's knowledge & skills map
  17. Explaining to business people why building software is still hard
  18. The software engineering war
  19. 7 reasons experienced EMs get stuck
  20. Building a code reviewer from your team's PR history
  21. The "I don't know, Claude wrote this" pandemic
  22. The generalist EM's reading list
  23. Surviving in the "chaos management" era
  24. "okay" vs excellent engineering teams
  25. The un-hateable engineering managers
  26. The engineering management memory crisis
  27. The "Negative split" software engineering effect
  28. Managing a team that didn't choose you
  29. The engineering manager's attention budget
  30. Dropping sprints: a year with Shape Up
  31. Engineering Managers are going to hate OpenClaw
  32. Explaining, understanding, and data compression
  33. Software engineering calories: what would cal.ai say about your product?
  34. The unwritten laws of software engineering
  35. Engineering Management & Fatherhood - Take #2
  36. Don't become an Engineering Manager93.2kviews
  37. Taking just one step too far
  38. The Unreachable Engineering Managers
  39. The Software Games: Endless Grind
  40. 7 Slack hacks for engineers and managers
  41. Who does what and how to support them

2025 43

  1. A Scientist’s Guide to Debugging Engineers
  2. 5 engineering dogmas it's time to retire
  3. The 'delayed opinions givers' - engineering teams everybody hates
  4. Shadow work in engineering teams
  5. Give your engineers a kingdom
  6. The price of mandatory code reviews
  7. Engineering velocity on steroids
  8. Build your engineering team like a dungeon party
  9. The EM’s guide to AI adoption (without your engineers hating it)
  10. What's next for manager.dev and for me
  11. $7B startup Head of Engineering and dad of 5 builds a profitable side project
  12. 3D No-Code, nights and weekends - a director of engineering’s side project
  13. Building a $5K ARR Side Project While Managing 9 Engineers
  14. How an EM’s Side Project Reached 1,800 GitHub Stars
  15. 10 simple internal tools any EM can build in under 2 hours
  16. Engineering Management in the Age of Agents
  17. Why things just work around some EMs
  18. Team got cut. Scope didn’t.
  19. Landing an EM role in 2025
  20. Stop forcing AI tools on your engineers
  21. When a PM takes over engineering
  22. The software engineering "squeeze"69.6kviews
  23. Being an Engineering Manager at IKEA businesses
  24. Killing the tiny annoyances (in work and life)
  25. The time zones of Engineering Managers
  26. The 3 hero traps experienced EMs fall into
  27. 5 Powerful Persuasion Methods for Engineering Managers
  28. Build your own Engineering Management Operating System
  29. It Depends: 7 viral Engineering Management dilemmas
  30. 6 assumptions engineering managers make (and engineers hate)
  31. The 7 must-read Engineering Management books
  32. The 13 software engineering laws238.2kviews
  33. How vibe coding will affect Engineering Managers
  34. Being an Engineering Manager at Flo
  35. Why I decided to quit a Director's job
  36. 20 Business terms every Engineering Manager should know
  37. How to WOW your engineers without budget
  38. Managing people you don't like
  39. The 5 intensity zones of software teams
  40. 7 proven mental models for engineering managers
  41. 6 secrets for never being blocked again
  42. Being an Engineering Manager at Meta
  43. The victim trap of engineering managers

2024 47

  1. 6 reasons why the senior leadership doesn't take you seriously
  2. The 3 top mistakes of managers under 30
  3. Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy
  4. What I wish somebody told me during my first year as a manager
  5. Safe vs ALL-IN Engineering Management
  6. Staying Calm When You Want to Disappear
  7. The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager62.7kviews
  8. Engineering management in the next unicorn app
  9. Why sprints are taking the joy out of building software
  10. Breaking the wall between teams
  11. How to have 27 hours in your day
  12. Being an engineering manager at Amazon
  13. When your PM drives you crazy
  14. The New Engineering Manager's Handbook
  15. 3 genius marketing tips for software engineers
  16. The secret of the best engineering manager I know
  17. The impossible task of engineering managers
  18. "20% for tech debt" doesn't work
  19. 5 reasons why your best developers will quit - and how can you postpone it
  20. 3 steps to write messages that people will enjoy reading
  21. 10 common ways engineering managers get stuck
  22. Why do companies keep so many secrets
  23. The Apprentice, The New Boss, The Successor and The Pioneer
  24. The #1 new engineering managers mistake
  25. How to keep up with all the digital content
  26. Great software teams don't release in phases
  27. When ignoring security alerts makes sense
  28. Clean up your Email Inbox in 5 minutes
  29. The worst Slack messaging mistake engineers make
  30. How we deleted 4195 code files in 9 hours
  31. Distracting software engineers is much more harmful than you think58.9kviews
  32. How refactoring almost ruined my marriage
  33. Most micromanagers are blind to being seen as one
  34. 10 Must-Reads for Engineering Leaders
  35. The Guide to Stock Options conversations
  36. 3 steps for a FAST promotion to management
  37. You are firing people too late
  38. Feature flags are ruining your codebase
  39. How I almost quit because of $75
  40. Becoming a sales-engineer
  41. Improve your SQL skills X2 in 5 minutes
  42. You are hurting your team without even noticing
  43. The ridiculous policy that forced engineers to come to the office at 2 AM twice a year
  44. Hiring ONLY seniors is the worst policy in the software industry
  45. Becoming an Engineering Manager - Is It For You?
  46. Product Management is broken, a change is coming
  47. Your team meetings don’t have to be boring

2023 17

  1. Why managers have more bad days
  2. How can developers become more business oriented
  3. Competition is good for your team
  4. How to make your team read your mind
  5. The 4 Words that Will Drive Any Developer Crazy
  6. How a 3rd Party API Can Ruin Your Weekend
  7. Getting the most out of your Software Architects
  8. DevOps/Platform teams are the hardest to manage
  9. 5 Questions to Help You Deal with Fake Urgency
  10. Managing rockstars can drive you crazy
  11. How I destroyed the company's DB
  12. The challenges of 100+ Development Team Leaders
  13. Organizing team focus days
  14. What does your manager want from you?
  15. Why Engineering Managers Give Up
  16. The Curse of Good Managers
  17. The secret for effective code reviews