The Staff Engineer Playbook: Impact Without Authority
Staff engineers shape technical direction without managing people. Here is the playbook for driving change through influence, writing, and strategic code contributions.
Product thinking, startup lessons, business models, and strategic decisions at the intersection of technology and markets.
Staff engineers shape technical direction without managing people. Here is the playbook for driving change through influence, writing, and strategic code contributions.
The developer tools market is littered with products that solved real problems but could not find a business model. Pattern recognition from a decade of watching devtools rise and fall.
DevOps promised to break silos. It created new ones. Platform engineering is the course correction — building internal products that make developers self-sufficient.
Treating technical debt as a vague metaphor lets teams ignore it. Treating it as an actual financial instrument — with interest rates and repayment schedules — changes everything.