Episode 21: Silvia Botros (Twilio-Sendgrid)

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In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Silvia talk about:

How nobody ever reads documentation beforehand
The sad state of education
What terrible handwriting might offer us in terms of improving our communication habits
rachel's inability to remember the term "career ladder"
The importance of identifying and codifying hierarchies as your flat org begins to grow
Discovering the Individual Contributor leadership track
What leadership means for the Principal Engineer and how this varies at scale
The value of providing historical context for your colleagues
Dudes on Twitter, an eternal plague etc
Becoming comfortable about delegation as a method of self-preservation
Making the choice to remain an Individual Contributor
...and realizing you're a leader anyway
Wielding authority for good, not judgement of errors
Transferring incident response skills to one's home life
Why leadership does not equal management

You can find Silvia on twitter as @dbsmasher
You can find Silvia's recent blog post here: https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3

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