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November 2023

Human Skills 030: Organizational Change
with Elaine May
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October 2023

Human Skills 029: Fully Asynchronous Teams
Amy Phillips has an incredibly varied background in management, having led QA teams, developers, and SREs. And we talked some about those experiences…
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Human Skills 028 - Conflict and Swagger
After a career at the intersection of UX design and front end development, Kate Cox became a manager in early 2020, one of the most tumultuous times in…
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Human Skills 027 - Thriving in the Tech Industry
Jossie Haines has been a technical leader in some of the biggest name brands in tech, working in Management, Director, and VP roles at companies like…
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Human Skills 026: The Importance of Caring
Garima Sahai "grew up" with Google, spending almost 20 years with the organization through a series of engineering roles, followed by management, and…
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Good resources for new managers
Hey folks, I’m currently single parenting as my wife travels, and I didn’t have the bandwidth to edit a new interview for this week. Instead, I’m taking…
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September 2023

Human Skills 025: Improving Processes as an Engineer
Loren Verheyden is a long time engineer who started getting involved in process improvements, and eventually became a manager after realizing that most…
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Human Skills 024: Operationalizing Values
Amy Chantasirivisal is someone I've been chatting back and forth with online for a couple of years now. She is one of those engineering leaders who…
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Human Skills 023: Teams as Complex Systems
Paulo André has worked as an engineer, manager, director, and VP of Engineering before becoming a leadership coach. He has experience working with small…
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Human Skills 022: Vulnerability and Leadership
Jamie Strachan worked his way up through various software roles until he reached Architect, at which point he realized that increasingly his work was…
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August 2023

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