Those are deep reflections on efficiency, optimism, and not getting left behind that resonates a lot with me. I'm also excited for what's coming next. Happy New Year, James!
What I mean by this is that we should focus on making every single one of our engineers more productive, efficient, and impactful. This can come from good prioritization, saying no to things, coaching and upskilling, better tooling — anything.
The key is that managers can't just keep adding more people to projects and organizations — they need to make every single person count.
Just wanted to say this post really captures some of what I enjoy about working at Shopify and my general thoughts about adapting with technology as we get older. Well written!
Those are deep reflections on efficiency, optimism, and not getting left behind that resonates a lot with me. I'm also excited for what's coming next. Happy New Year, James!
Happy new year!
«measure ourselves as managers on the impact per engineer that we have». What does it mean? Any examples would be useful.
What I mean by this is that we should focus on making every single one of our engineers more productive, efficient, and impactful. This can come from good prioritization, saying no to things, coaching and upskilling, better tooling — anything.
The key is that managers can't just keep adding more people to projects and organizations — they need to make every single person count.
That makes sense. Thanks.
Just wanted to say this post really captures some of what I enjoy about working at Shopify and my general thoughts about adapting with technology as we get older. Well written!
I'm really pleased you liked it, Brett! Thank you for reading it.
Nice article!