The Effortless Manager

Effortless Action Through Default Decisions As leaders—whether you’re a people manager or a more experienced engineer—you’re likely balancing many tasks while supporting your team. If you’re like me you’ve gotten yourself into a stressful situation where a pile of people are waiting for you to make decisions before each of...

We’ve all been there. You’re a programmer-turned-new-manager and your team has a deadline coming up. You take a look at your calendar and you start to get that feeling in the pit of your stomach: we aren’t going to make it. You start to panic and feel that cold sweat....

A few months ago, our community manager Mary Thengvall asked Avi Goldman and I if we would be interested in teaching a 3-hour technical workshop at the upcoming Codeland conference. Now, neither Avi nor I had ever attended a workshop, let alone run one. But Codeland is organized by Saron...