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Aug
17

🐡 Unfocused Teams, Variation, Subtraction, Landing the Plane, Invisible Work, Stewardship, Energy Management: TMW #495

The best engineering leadership reads from the last week
8 min read
Aug
10

🍣 Good Judgment, Well-Rounded Leaders, Organisational Blindness, Agentic Quality, Finding Calm: TMW #494

Nominations for the CTO Craft 100 are open!
7 min read
Aug
03

🍓 Restless Teams, Two-Way Doors, AI and Team Tensions, Healthy Conflict, Open Weights, Bad Prioritisation, Token Pricing: TMW #493

In Stockholm on October 15th? You can't miss this...
8 min read
Jul
27

🫐 Software Factories, Meetings, Magical Thinking, Mapping Teams, FinOps, AI Security: TMW #492

Don't forget to nominate someone for the CTO Craft 100...
8 min read
Jul
20

🐢 Incident Culture, Focus, Important Details, AI vs QA Teams, Politics, Monorepos, Crises, People Pleasing: TMW #491

Where are we going to meet you at a CTO Craft Con?
8 min read
Jul
13

🥐 Working with CEOs, Staying Technical, Matrix Leadership, Ownership, Cutting Quality, AI-Induced Burnout: TMW #490

Nominations for the CTO Craft 100 awards are officially open!
8 min read
Jul
06

🦔 Rise of the CAIO, AI vs Team Motivation, Handling Skepticism, Rewrites, the New Prioritisation, Employee Burnout: TMW #489

CTO Craft Con: Fintech 2026 - announcing our keynote speakers
9 min read
Jun
29

🧀 OKRs for AI, Managing Sideways, Manager Scorecards, Agentic Team Topologies, Flattening, Trusting AI, Networking: TMW #488

CTO Craft Con: Europe - join us in Amsterdam this September!
7 min read
Jun
22

🦐 First Principle, Leadership vs Management, Writing Culture, Too-Positive Teams, Cost of Breaches, Time Management for Mummies: TMW #487

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8 min read
Jun
15

🥨 Return on Tokens, Reliable Teams, Culture vs Innovation, Reorgs, Runbooks vs Checklists, Clean Code: TMW #486

Two AI-focused CTO events for your diary!
8 min read