Field Notes from the Stack: Remembering Your Roots
Protecting a team’s focus sometimes means picking up the work yourself. This week, I stepped back into engineering to keep competing priorities off my team’s plate.
Field Notes
A series of posts in the style of newspaper-style weekly columns where I chat about my week. The challenges, the wins, and the weird. Sometimes tech-focused, sometimes leadership-focused. Sometimes it goes completely off the rails.
Field Notes from the Stack: The Cost of On-Call
On-call can mean messy break-fixes, delayed feature work, interrupted sleep, and the stress of never quite knowing when the next page will arrive. Join me as I share my take on handling on-call.