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  • Communicating clearly is the ultimate soft-skill

    posted 07.05.2022

    In a few recent posts I talked about challenges growing an engineering startup team. The first one was about the timing of new processes and what are the right hires for early stages of a startup. The more recent one was about keeping sight of your 1 year plan and not drowning in daily firefights.

    They both talked about the what to focus on, but not about the how to achieve it. There is one soft-skill that stands out as the biggest helper in this regard. It is learning to communicate well.

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  • Eight tips to relieve those Postgres headaches

    posted 22.06.2020

    Postgres is my Swiss army knife for storage and can cover the traditional relational database usecases, extreme scaling, NoSQL use-cases, analytics and much more. It's a great stack to start with and only after a long period of time you will see if you actually need something more specialized.

    Here's a few helpful tips on the productboard engineering blog to make work with it even smoother, check it out.

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  • TechUncovered: Leading tech teams from home

    posted 14.05.2020

    I've been part of a panel discussion about how the forced work from home situation has affected engineering leaders. We've talked about how COVID-19 affected our business, how plan to go back to normal and we've also talked about the key qualities and traits of engineering leaders in general.

    See the whole thing below:

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  • What I wish I knew before becoming a manager in tech

    posted 02.12.2019

    Find the slides below:

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