Steering Coding Agents with Repo-Native Docs: A Playbook for Teams
Treat documentation like a context cache, keep the always loaded bits tiny, put the rest next to the code, and make agents faster and less wrong.
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Why Engineering Managers Should Use Claude Code for Productivity, Not Just Coding
Engineering managers are uniquely positioned to use Claude Code for more than just coding. By building small libraries that connect to your productivity tool...
Beyond Google Sheets, Practical Airtable Workflows for Managers
A practical guide to using Airtable for people data, permissions, forms, and lightweight dashboards
Let’s Work Together
The first step is getting to know each other
What are the less obvious downsides of a Health Savings Plan?
As someone with a young family and who is generally on track for retirement savings, I switched to an HSA and HDHP for two years, but then switched back
Burnout Playbook
Leaders need to be actively managing their own mental well-being at work
How to Run Calibrations
Calibrations are a group-based process for an organization to increase the equity of individual performance reviews across a large set of teams
Dependency Management Playbook
How to manage risk for your project dependencies, i.e. when you need another team to put something on their roadmap.
Organizational Design
You don’t have to choose just one organizational strategy for your entire company. A mature product org may be organized by goal, while a new product org has...
My Expectations for Managers
These are my basic expectations for managers that report to me