2026-08-27
Charity Majors argues that the move from engineering to management should not be a one-way door, and that the strongest people in tech swing back and forth between the two roles every few years so neither their technical nor their leadership skills go stale.
Michael Lynch recounts that his third year working for himself was the one in which his hardware product TinyPilot outgrew solo development, becoming his main income and forcing him to start hiring and managing other people.
Dan Luu argues that deliberately choosing a boring, simple architecture — a Python monolith on Postgres — and reaching for the simplest available solution to each new problem is what let Wave scale to a $1.7B company while its engineers stayed focused on user-facing work.
Rauno Freiberg keeps a running set of field notes contending that interface quality is settled by small, concrete craft decisions — easing curves, hit areas, optical alignment — rather than by broad design strokes.