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Episode 21: Silvia Botros (Twilio-Sendgrid)
Manage episode 229229508 series 2317207
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
100 episodes
Manage episode 229229508 series 2317207
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
100 episodes
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