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Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself as Your Company Grows
Suhail Patel shares secrets to growth beyond technical mastery for staff-plus engineers & leaders. Learn to leverage influence, strategic thinking, interviewing & writing to fill organizational cracks
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How to Always Get Invited to Big Strategic Conversations
Mark Allen shares five practical tips to maximize strategic organizational impact, build an internal brand, and get invited to the "big conversations" that shape the business.
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Your Roadmap to a Fulfilling Career: the Pillars of Staff+ Growth
David Grizzanti shares a roadmap for senior software developers and architects, explaining how to navigate the staff-plus career path and find fulfillment beyond a title.
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What Keeps Me Up at Night – Existential Questions for IC Leaders
Tina Wright shares existential questions for IC leaders, including how to have more impact without more hours, determine if your work matters, and influence without authority.
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Ambiguous Roles and Ambiguous Problems: Navigating Life as a Principal Engineer
Will Larson and Dan Fike discuss how senior engineers can navigate the ambiguous, high-stakes problems that define principal-level work.
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Navigators: Decentralizing Decisions and Empowering ICs at Carta
Shawna Martell and Dan Fike discuss why Carta started the Navigators program, how they formed their initial group, what they’ve learned so far, and how to leverage a similar program.
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Small Actions, Big Impact: Catalyzing Change in Groups
Eb Ikonne discusses expanding informal authority within groups and organizations, how small actions at the individual level can liberate team members, and fostering high-performing work environments.
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Five Steps to Building a Personal Brand for Elevating Your Influence
Pablo Fredrikson discusses how to grow your personal brand to land better opportunities and have a greater impact.
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Strategic Thinking for Staff+ Engineers
Shweta Saraf discusses a framework for developing strategic thinking at any career stage, with a special focus on Staff+ engineers.
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Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges
Adam Schirmacher discusses the “transparent umbrella” strategy, treating staff+ engineers like senior engineers, handling mismatched IQ/EQ, and leading without authority vs. lending authority.
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An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents
Erin Doyle discusses her experience with a critical 3-day-long incident and how she missed a key opportunity to help prevent the incident and how to build a culture to prevent similar situations.
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Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer
Caleb Hyde discusses their career progression and regressions, as well the context they used to figure out what to work on and whom to work with, distilling a framework to utilize in one’s own work.
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