Why I spent a year turning this blog into a book (opens in new tab)

The tools changed\. The job didn’t\. For years, I’ve used this blog to write about what I’ve learned leading engineering teams\. My main goal has consistently been to help engineering managers navigate their roles so they can be effective sooner than I was in my career\. The posts got great responses, but every time I pointed someone to them as something to actually learn from, I heard the same thing: the content is good, but it’s hard to follow as a single thread\. So I tried to organize my ...