The Engineering Manager

I’ve not written for a few weeks because we’ve been busy moving house.  In an attempt to turn my brain away from the lure of unpacking more boxes and moving more furniture around, here I am in front of the keyboard for a short while. Dealing with boxes for a number of weeks has reminded me of a few concepts in software development: notably the power and pitfalls of abstraction, and the effects that deadline […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about my energy levels at work this weekend, mostly because I’ve managed them badly over the last few weeks. As a result, I am trying to be more mindful of habits or behaviours that I fall into in the hope that I can get better at managing them going forward. In this article, I’ve tried to explore what I’ve observed in myself, in the hope that it might be of […]