The Curious LeaderBig ideas to catalyze your growth
Engineering leadership is hard, and the world needs more great leaders. The best leaders in the world have mastered the ability to stay curious.
I post an article every week or two focusing on some facet of the technology industry that feels under-explored. It’s nominatively about leadership, but not always “positional leadership.” The Curious Leader is about taking the wheel in your life; there are no passengers, only drivers.
We’ve been seduced by the apparent speed of AI coding assistants. Social media is buzzing with stories about features shipping in hours instead of weeks, exclamations of “we rewrote our entire frontend in a weekend!” and CEOs boasting about shipping an MVP themselves in mere days with no help.
These observations are true enough, but we’re developing “velocity tunnel vision,” and the light at the end of this tunnel is the headlight of a fast-approaching train. We’ve been hit by this train before, and back then it was called offshoring.
