Leadership on When Moore's Law Ends

FANG for decision making

Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

FANG#

Frame#

Problem statement & background

Assumption#

Based on best info

Non-goals#

Something NOT trying to solve

Goals#

Something trying to solve

Avoid#

Too long of framing, not history lession
Facts are not assumptions
Goals/non-goals are for “solution” not “discussion”

Best Practice#

FANG-only doc, stop short of proposals
By taking away potential solutions helps converge on FANG first before solution
- It takes aways the bias on potential solutions

How to become a multiplier

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

From Cloning yourself isn’t an option by Camille Fournier

Everyone wants to have clones to help them with certain work.
- But additive is linear improvements while multiplier is trying to achieve exponential improvements
Tech skills are foundamental, BUT
- Availability bias: the more skilled a person is on a dimension, the more important they consider that activity to be.
- Be too afaid of being detached from tech is over exaggerated.
- Gradually in time when your c, the bottleneck of your personal performance is less depending on your tech skills, but more on your focus.

I’m a digital design engineer, therefore I intent to under-estimate the difficulty or importance of verification. And the second point of fear also applies to me very well. I’m sill evaluating whether being a manager helps me more or being a indivdual contributor is more satisfying.

Improve in engineering leadership

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

From Self-evaluation and improvement in engineering leadership

How manage a remote/distributed teams?
- Communication is the key.
  - TODO: setup regular communication channel.
- Knowing the ppl you are working with, the methods of communication they prefer.
Peer support for growing as a leader?
- It’s a lonely road, unlike engineering, there is not much sharing between peers. And different managers may have totally different problems.
- TODO: peer support group. Or if you are a manager of managers, sharing between your staff is important to improve their performance, maybe yours as well.
From IC to manager, what don’t you expect before the transition?