The Effortless Manager

Tackling the unique challenge of managing staff+ ICs

Effortless action through default decisions

A running list of articles and books that I've found useful and refer back to

Finding the flow in management

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...