HeyJaredThe Engineering Manager
Tools, tips and discussions for current and aspiring engineering leaders.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 22, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 14, 2026
Latest issues
Building a truth-seeking organisation (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Welcome back to the paid edition of the newsletter, and thank you again for being a subscriber. I keep this newsletter very simple. There is a free article and a paid article every month, and I do no interviews, sponsorships, or anything that would move the content away from the core proposition, which is that we get to explore interesting ideas together. Being a paid subscriber is no small ask, so I try to ensure that you get something long, deep and meaningful each month.So, truth.Recently, we
Nobody needs a human router (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Over the last decade, much has changed in the role of engineering management. Through the 2010s into the peak of Covid in 2021, for many, the role began to optimize for one thing. That one thing was moving information around. Managers translated context upwards from the team and decisions downwards from leadership, honing their craft on smoothing the friction between individuals and their priorities and whims, and dancing around ceremony-heavy ways of working. Sometimes it was easy to forget tha
Focus as a convex curve (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Welcome to the August subscriber edition. As I always say, thank you for being here, and for your continued support of this newsletter. I try my best to bring you something novel and, perhaps, a little different to most technology-focussed newsletters, often dipping into other fields to do so.With that in mind, this month’s article comes from an unusual source: a set of investment letters written by a fund manager most (technology) people have never heard of. Nick Sleep ran the Nomad Investment
Landing the plane (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Everyone loves the start of a project. There’s the kickoff, the fresh energy of newness, and the blank canvas of a new feature to build. There’s a particular optimism that comes with beginnings, when the team is aligned, the scope feels manageable, and the possibilities stretch out ahead of you. Starting is the fun part, which is probably why so many of us have a pile of musical instruments and unfinished side projects. But the end is a different story. The final 10% of a project, where the work
Less envelopes, more letters (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Welcome to the July subscriber edition. Thank you, as always, for your support, and for being here.In February this year, Jason Fried sat down with David Senra for a long conversation about business, craft, and what actually matters when you’re building something. Fried drew a distinction that I found very useful: envelope entrepreneurs versus letter entrepreneurs. Typically, builders are one or the other.Envelope entrepreneurs get joy from focusing on the container: fundraising and go-to-market
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.