Accountability is the only way that anything gets done at scale. Here are some ways that smart people screw up accountability on their teams, often despite the best of intentions – and what to do about them.

While I frequently hear engineers bemoan a missing strategy, they rarely complete the thought by articulating why the missing strategy matters. Instead, it serves as more of a truism: the economy used to be better, children used to respect their parents, and engineering organizations used to have an engineering strategy. This chapter starts by exploring something I believe quite strongly: there’s always an engineering strategy, even if there’s nothing written down. From there, we’ll discuss why strategy, especially written strategy, is such a valuable opportunity for organizations that take it seriously.

My daily system for gathering and processing information has evolved. I now work through a gather-decide-execute loop using Logseq.

The study of bureaucracy