Lessons From 4 Years of Writing the Engineering Leadership Newsletter
How I started with the newsletter, the most important lessons and what I would tell myself 4 years ago!
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Engineering Leadership
Newsletter by Gregor Ojstersek
Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader.
20 posts in the last 90 days · newest 5 Oct
How to Develop a Proactive Mindset as an Engineer
An adapted chapter from my upcoming book “The Multiplier Mindset”, published by O’Reilly.
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How Companies Assess Fit of Engineers on a Behavioral Interview
The 4 dimensions that determine your level of your offer.
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How to Become a Leader Everyone Wants to Work With
An adapted chapter from my upcoming book “The Multiplier Mindset”, published by O’Reilly.
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The Most Important Laws You Need to Know for Leading Engineering Teams
How Conway, Brooks, Goodhart, Hofstadter, and other laws help you lead high-performing engineering teams.
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How to Build a Reputation as a Reliable Engineer
An adapted chapter from my upcoming book “The Multiplier Mindset”, published by O’Reilly.
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How to Deal With Company Politics as an Engineering Leader
How to protect your team, build influence, and avoid becoming the person who absorbs every organizational problem.
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How to Become a Great Coach and Mentor
With the increase of “player-coaches”, it’s more important than ever to know how to be a great coach and mentor. This is how to do it!
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How to Grow Past Senior Engineer
My 4 recommended starting moves that’ll help you gain trust and credibility to grow to the next step!
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What Elite Engineering Teams Do Differently in the Age of AI
Insights from engineering leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Shutterstock and Weave.
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The “Player-Coach” Role is Becoming Increasingly Harder
Engineering Manager, Team Lead, Tech Lead, and Architect roles are becoming harder than ever, but the problematic part is that many people don’t understand that and don't give the deserved credit.
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How Redis Builds AI-Native Engineering Teams
Insights from my conversation with Eric Sammer, Distinguished Engineer at Redis.
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Good Culture is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
AI definitely helps with productivity, but only when you have the right culture in place first!
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How Shutterstock Builds AI-Native Engineering Teams
Insights from my conversation with Jefferson Frazer, Director, AI Metadata and Delivery, Shutterstock.
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How to Tell if Your Manager is Actually Good?
The 3 signs that reveal whether your manager is helping you thrive or holding you back.
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Inside OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineer Role
Insights based on my conversation with the Global Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at OpenAI. What does it take to be a great forward deployed engineer at OpenAI?
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How I Cut Observability Costs by 60% in 2 Days
If you don’t watch your infrastructure costs, you may end up with a huge bill at the end of the month. This is how an experienced engineer approached reducing observability costs.
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How to Become an Engineering Multiplier Using AI
How high-performing engineers and engineering leaders use AI to create more impact.
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How OpenAI Optimized AI Agents For Scale
Inside the Harness, API, and Inference efficiency optimizations that support the fast growth of Codex and ChatGPT Work.
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