Roadmap decisions rather than dates.
Irrational Exuberance13d ago
One thing that bothered me about Imprint’s product after joining was our lack of passkey support.
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top 37%Middle management roles are also a trap.
Irrational Exuberance16d ago
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing...
Generated and suppressed demand.
Irrational Exuberance11 Jul 2026
Eight years ago, I wrote about my theory of restoring struggling teams, which came down to four steps: - A team is falling behind if each week their backlog is longer than the week before.
Make no assumptions.
Irrational Exuberance11 Jul 2026
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”, which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down to bedrock, which all combine...
Revised rules of engineering leadership.
Irrational Exuberance15 Jun 2026
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational.
Early and late-stage hypergrowth.
Irrational Exuberance27 Apr 2026
Last week, a colleague asked why I’d hired an additional new leader onto an important area rather than expanding an existing leader’s scope to incorporate that area as well.
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.
Irrational Exuberance12 Apr 2026
One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly...
Judgment and creativity are all you need.
Irrational Exuberance11 Mar 2026
When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations were run manually, too.
Refactoring internal documentation in Notion
Irrational Exuberance5 Feb 2026
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation was the area with the second most comments.