Mentorship and Coaching: Growing the Next Generation of Tech Leaders
I've mentored engineers who became executives. I've also mentored engineers who would have been better served by a different approach from me — giving advice when they needed space, or autonomy when they needed direction.
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Pattern Recognition: How Knitting Prepared Me for Engineering and Leadership
I used to own a knitting shop. This is perhaps the most unexpected sentence I could write in a piece about technology leadership, so let me explain why it belongs here.
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The Month Pneumonia Rewrote My Retirement
For years, retirement lived in my head as a clean transition. Finish strong, downshift, start traveling with a clear plan and an open calendar. What I did not plan for was pneumonia taking five weeks of the timeline I did not have to spare.
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Leaving Disney: What I Learned, What Changed, and What I'd Do Again
Last week was my last at The Walt Disney Company. It was a meaningful chapter.Full of complex systems, high creative standards, and people who cared about getting difficult things right.
This is what I learned, what it changed in me, and what I'd do again.
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Last Day at Disney Studios: Closing One Chapter, Opening the Next
Today was my last day at Disney Studios.
It is hard to summarize a chapter like this in a few paragraphs, but meaningful is the word that keeps coming back. I had the privilege of working with people who care deeply about craft, scale, and getting difficult things right.
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