Find resources to solve your technical leadership challenges
Essential email templates for professional communication in business and leadership contexts
Comprehensive collection of facilitation techniques for running effective workshops and meetings
Leadership philosophy of enabling teams through delegation and avoiding micromanagement
Exploring how strategic laziness and impatience can drive better engineering practices and automation
First Round Review guide on building effective management training programs for startups
Framework for implementing morning learning sessions to develop team growth mindset and continuous improvement
Simple management technique of regularly sharing interesting content to build team culture and learning
Strategies for developing and mentoring engineering talent internally rather than relying solely on hiring
Analysis of when employees become vulnerable to leaving and how leaders can strengthen or weaken commitment
Wise's engineering values emphasizing transparency, customer focus, and global impact
HubSpot's engineering principles focusing on customer success, autonomy, and continuous improvement
Figma's approach to engineering culture and values in building collaborative design tools
Lullabot's six engineering values prioritizing people, inclusivity, learning, balance, future-thinking, and joy
Medium's engineering values emphasizing personal growth, mentorship, diversity, and pursuit of greatness
Amazon's 16 leadership principles that guide decision-making and define company culture
Why solving cultural problems with technology makes dysfunction worse, not better
HubSpot's culture deck outlining seven core principles for building a company people love
Analysis of brilliant but toxic engineers and their destructive impact on team dynamics and productivity
Why fundamental principles outlast tools and processes for sustainable professional growth
Key practices and behaviors that enable teams to perform at their highest potential
Why organizational culture is more fundamental to success than strategic planning
Design patterns for managing up and professional communication in challenging workplace situations
Deep analysis of cultural practices from leading tech companies and their engineering success patterns
Six proven strategies for engineering managers to maintain technical credibility and combat skill decay
Foundational principles and best practices for building robust software engineering teams
Curated collection of research that provides evidence-based perspectives on overhyped topics in technology
Spotify's proven strategies for successful large-scale technology migrations using carrots, not sticks
Balancing the benefits of using multiple programming languages with the costs of complexity in resource-constrained startup teams
Warning signs that your system rewrite is doomed including lack of clear success metrics, underestimating migration complexity, and stakeholder misalignment
Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders containing investment philosophy and management principles
Steve Yegge's leaked rant: Amazon understood platforms (everything as a service), Google didn't (focused on products not platforms)
Patrick Lencioni's six critical questions: why exist, how behave, what do, how succeed, what's important now, who does what
Doug Turnbull: juniors force knowledge sharing, bring fresh perspectives, improve psychological safety, and prevent organizational stagnation
Will Larson on extracting actionable insights from cultural surveys: segment data, identify patterns, focus on fixable problems
Aleix Morgadas: work within existing culture to achieve goals first, then incrementally shift toward 'adjacent possible' changes
Will Larson argues strategy always exists even if unwritten - writing it down enables debate, evolution, and organizational learning
Essential soft skills for tech leaders: emotional intelligence, active listening, empathy, and mastering your own psychology first
Fly.io's humorous take on SOC2: it's essentially 'a series of screenshots' proving compliance - weak signal but customer requirement
Brian Krebs explains security.txt - a standard file that helps security researchers report vulnerabilities to your organization
Strategies for middle managers caught between strategic work and operational demands - prioritize ruthlessly, delegate effectively
Stripe's comprehensive playbook for scaling engineering teams from startup to enterprise, based on their growth experience
Strategies for maintaining engineering culture, quality, and velocity while rapidly scaling teams and systems
Google's design doc philosophy: solve problems early, document trade-offs, achieve consensus - 10-20 pages focusing on 'why' not 'how'
Complete RFC implementation guide covering templates, processes, roles, and cultural considerations for engineering teams
Practical lessons from implementing RFCs including the importance of templates, ownership clarity, and balancing process with agility
Apache Geode's streamlined RFC process balancing documentation needs with development velocity for distributed teams
Gergely Orosz's framework for using RFCs to increase visibility, spread knowledge, and create accountability in scaling engineering organizations
Zapier's comprehensive remote work playbook covering everything from automation to management across their 800+ person distributed company
The stdlib collection is a community-curated library of practical, immediately useful, battle-tested resources for technical leadership. Each resource is designed to be immediately applicable to your role. New resources are added based on community feedback and emerging best practices.