The 5-Minute Startup CTO #79

Building a management career, Storytelling for Product, The 80/20 rule, Beautiful code

Hi there,

I hope you’re well - here’s your 4 tips for this week:

👭 People

First, Will Larson (from Calm) discuses how to build a career in engineering management: the technical and management paths, the role of Staff Engineer, leadership challenges, and more.

🥫 Product

Next, Jessica Hall explains how central storytelling (with the customer as the hero) is to Product and UX leadership.

🔄 Process

Beware the 80/20 rule: while often misused as an excuse for laziness, applied to the right problem it actually is a great recipe for increased focus.

⌨️ Tech

So, nobody cares about your beautiful code - well, up to a point. A good reminder to focus on what matters most, customers.

؜ @levelsio

remoteok.io is a single PHP file called "index.php" generating $101,101 this month. No frameworks. No libraries (except jQuery)💖 (SGD 123.4k=USD 92k) + (USD 9.5k in ads) remoteok.io/open

Until next time, have a great week

Fabrice

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