The text discusses the qualities that set apart coworkers who have done the best work, focusing on agency and taste. It emphasizes the importance of finding high-leverage work and improving agency and taste through practice. It al...
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The post provides advice for time management as a manager, discussing the challenges of transitioning from an individual contributor to a team lead. It emphasizes the need for accurate expectations, ruthless prioritization, delega...
The text describes the author's playbook for project management, focusing on crisis management projects. It emphasizes the importance of focus, maintaining a detailed plan, running a fast OODA loop, overcommunicating, breaking off...
0Categories of leadership on technical teams
2024-07-21 •
The blog post discusses the different categories of leadership on technical teams, including overall direction, people management, project management, and technical leadership. It provides examples of how these responsibilities ca...
0Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly
2024-07-13 •
The blog post discusses how trust is a critical factor in the effectiveness of growing teams. The author highlights that a lack of trust can be appropriate in certain situations, such as when team members are new or lack experienc...
0How I build and run behavioral interviews
2024-02-25 •
The blog post discusses the author's approach to conducting effective behavioral interviews, which he initially found challenging. He shares tips for improving these interviews, such as spending time preparing questions and follow...
0Some mistakes I made as a new manager
2023-04-23 •
The author shares his experiences and mistakes as a new manager, including the challenges of managing without immediate feedback, the struggle to balance management and programming, the difficulty of managing the right amount, pro...
0Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic
2023-02-01 •
Ben Kuhn reflects on his departure from Wave, where he served as CTO for nearly eight years, and his decision to join Anthropic. He describes his time at Wave as a period of significant personal and professional growth, contributi...
0Why and how to write things on the Internet
2022-12-29 •
The blog post discusses the reasons why people should consider writing things on the internet and provides a guide on how to do it. It emphasizes the benefits of blogging, such as making new friends and improving existing friendsh...
0Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
2022-12-22 •
The blog post discusses the concept of 'staring into the abyss,' which involves confronting uncomfortable truths and making difficult decisions. The author highlights the importance of this skill in personal and professional growt...
0Be less scared of overconfidence
2022-11-30 •
The author discusses the dangers of relying on low-information heuristics to make important decisions, using examples from his own life and the world at large. He argues that these heuristics often lead to underconfidence and unde...
010x (engineer, context) pairs
2022-06-09 •
The blog post discusses the concept of '10x engineers,' who are believed to be significantly more productive than their peers. The author argues that while there is no conclusive scientific evidence supporting the existence of 10x...
0Searching for outliers
2022-03-20 •
The author shares his experience of blogging and the outcomes of his posts. He explains the concept of heavy-tailed distributions and how it applies to various aspects of life. He gives examples of heavy-tailed and light-tailed di...