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The Happy Engineer helps engineering leaders reach the next level without suffering burnout - because success without fulfillment is failure. You will discover how to redefine work/life balance and lead with purpose, while accelerating your next promotion.
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You Don't Have to Live at Work to Become a Director of Engineering | Ep 227 (opens the original)
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Your boss's hours are real. That they're what got him promoted is the part you guessed. Built on a whiteboard. Watch it. Jeff was the guy you call when something breaks. He stopped answering his phone, stopped accepting same-day meetings, and told his boss he was declining a $20,000 project so he could put the hours into a multi-million-dollar proposal. He started in March. He was a director of engineering that August. You look one or two levels up the org chart and you see the 10pm Slack, the w
Why Winning Never Feels Like Enough: The Runner-Up Mindset with James Reid | Ep 226 (opens the original)
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You can win every category on paper and still feel like you're losing your own life. That's not humility talking. That's a mindset J.R. calls the Runner-Up — and it nearly cost him everything. Stuck at Engineering Manager with no clear path to Director? Get the free Director Promotion Roadmap → https://lifestyleengineering.oasisofcourage.com/director-promotion-roadmap Watch the full conversation → https://youtu.be/vKgeFK9I2Yk James Reid had the job every ambitious guy said he wanted — one of the
Bored at Work but Exhausted? That's Still Burnout | Ep 225 (opens the original)
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Bored at work but exhausted? It isn't your workload. Your growth curve flattened, and the flat spot is what's draining you. Not sure if you've outgrown the role, the company, or the entire direction of your engineering career? Grab the Next Move Experiment → https://toolkit.oasisofcourage.com/boredom Built on a whiteboard. Watch it → https://youtu.be/UcpXMSioj-o Chris had ten years at the same company, good pay, good life, no crisis — just a plan to ride it out four more years and retire. Two an
How Engineering Managers Get Promoted Without Bragging | Ep 224 (opens the original)
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Self-promotion makes most engineers cringe. You don't need a personality transplant — you need fifteen minutes and a better question. The three-step script, including the exact questions to use → https://toolkit.oasisofcourage.com/ninja Built on a whiteboard. Watch it → https://youtu.be/3vzy_sBler4 A project I was on went sideways, and we pulled it back. After it landed I booked fifteen minutes with a cross-functional director and asked how I could have made the impact bigger. A few weeks later
Why Great Engineers Get Passed Over for Promotion | Ep 223 (opens the original)
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It's almost never the work. Great engineers get passed over for promotion because they're all results and no reputation. Steal 200 ways to get known for the work you're already doing → https://toolkit.oasisofcourage.com/reach Built on a whiteboard. Watch it → https://youtu.be/pqVQgAwoz1k Your work does not speak for itself. It never has, and it never will. Reputation = Results × Reach. Results are the impact you create. Reach is the number of people who can explain your value when you're not in
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