#88 - Luca Rossi // Creator @ refactoring.club 🌀

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

Time Management + Continuous Learning Tips for CTO

Stay on top of your professional development with these learning and productivity tips from Luca Rossi, whose refactoring.club newsletter 🌀 is read by 50k subscribers every week. After scaling Wanderio to 25M users 🚀 as founding CTO, Luca sat down to distill his experiences and in the process created the tech leadership content 📰 he so badly needed. With diagrams. 🖼️ In this alphalist CTO podcast, Luca shares what he has learned about leadership - including the self-leadership needed to structure one's time and effectively harvest the plethora of ideas published online into action.
Listen to find out:

• What is the flaw in the 'State of Flow"?🌊
• Why CTOs should write more ✍️
• How he structures his day 🌞
• Should CTOs be generalists?🤔
• How he organises his tech leadership 'news clippings' 🗂️ Tobi getting real 🫣 about recurring 1:1s

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Timestamps (approx..) (00:00:00) What is the alphalist CTO podcasts? (00:02:23) Who is Luca? (00:03:40) - (00:06:23) Luca's Journey to Full-Time Writing (00:06:24) The Growth of the Refactoring Newsletter (00:07:05) Staying in-the-know when no longer an active CTO (00:09:27) How Luca got into Computing (00:11:11) Wanderio as a Italian Startup (hyperlocal) (00:13:39) New CTO Job? Don't refactor everything (00:18:09) The Rise of the Generalist CTO (00:21:09) How Luca Stays Up to Date on Tech Trends (00:22:19) Why Luca Prefers Newsletters (00:23:26) How to organise ideas from content (00:24:50) Structuring His Day (00:26:41) Finding Your Unique Angle and Voice (00:29:01) Productivity Techniques for Solo Work (00:31:21) Overriding Time Boxes (00:31:41) Flaw in the 'State of Flow' (00:30:27) Time Management Tools (00:31:48) Can CTOs Timebox? (00:33:42) Recurring Meetings (00:35:27) Too Many 1-on-1s? (00:36:39) Curriculum of a CTO School (00:39:57) 3 Tips for CTOs (00:40:44) Which Engineering Metrics (00:45:31) A CTO is a Maker (00:46:35) Share your Thoughts Online (00:47:56) Advice To Younger Self

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