- Dec 20, 2024 — [I Participated in 2882 Meetings in 5 Years](/2024/12/20/i-participated-in-2882-meetings-in-5-years.html)

Since my first day in AWS 5 1/2 years ago, I’ve been experimenting with keeping a CHANGELOG of everything I do, available for everyone at the company to see. I wrote about it he...

- Aug 7, 2019 — [Take an Incremental, Agile Approach to Scheduling Your 1:1s](/2019/08/07/take-an-incremental-agile-approach-to-scheduling-your-1-on-1s.html)

In my past CTO life I directly managed a VP of Engineering, who managed 2 directors, who managed 6 managers, who managed 30 or so engineers, had peer VP of Product, Head of Desi...

- Aug 3, 2015 — [Creating Thinking Time while Walking to Work](/2015/08/03/what-does-a-cto-do-creating-thinking-time-while-walking-to-work.html)

A few months ago I asked myself: What does a CTO do?. The first step towards answering this question was to offer my time to the team. Today I want to talk about dividing my att...

- Jul 18, 2015 — [Offering Time to The Team](/2015/07/18/what-does-a-cto-do-offering-time-to-the-team.html)

A few months ago I asked myself: What does a CTO do?.

- Jun 29, 2013 — [My Pathological Fear of Deadlines](/2013/06/29/my-pathological-fear-of-deadlines.html)

- May 29, 2011 — [Dear California Engineer - Your Commute is Killing You? Move to New York!](/2011/05/29/dear-california-engineer-your-commute-is-killing-you-move-to-new-york.html)