Notes
Reviews
Longer pieces on books and articles worth your time, including where I disagree. For quick takeaways, see my reading notes.
- One person owns the outcome. The team owns the solution.James Stanier argues every project needs one named owner. I agree, with one adjustment for enterprise teams: individual accountability without individualising the work. What named ownership will and won't fix, and how I'm going to test it.4 min read
- Deep Work, read as a lead engineerCal Newport's Deep Work argues that focus is getting rarer just as it becomes more valuable. Three ideas I'm taking from it, and the tension it doesn't resolve for anyone who leads a team.3 min read
- Being right is not the jobCong Wang's essay on why he stopped arguing, a 2,500-year-old line from Lao Tzu, and what changes when you're the one who has to make technical decisions stick.2 min read