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How to make your team read your mind
Why writing a Manager's ReadMe is not weird
Dec 5, 2023
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Anton Zaides
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A Scientist’s Guide to Debugging Engineers
Too often, I see smart engineers making their own lives much harder than they need to be.
Dec 23, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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5 engineering dogmas it's time to retire
A few months ago, I wrote about 13 software engineering laws, which are observations about how software projects behave.
Dec 16, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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The 'delayed opinions givers' - engineering teams everybody hates
What happens when you always put your own work first
Dec 2, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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Shadow work in engineering teams
And the price your team pays for it
Nov 18, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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The 13 software engineering laws
Apr 1, 2025
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The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager
Nov 12, 2024
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Anton Zaides
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The software engineering "squeeze"
Jun 24, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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Distracting software engineers is much more harmful than you think
Apr 30, 2024
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Anton Zaides
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Give your engineers a kingdom
In too many teams, everything goes through the Engineering Manager.
Oct 28, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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The price of mandatory code reviews
Challenging the unwritten law of software engineering
Oct 21, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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Engineering velocity on steroids
What a 10x team looks like
Oct 14, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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Build your engineering team like a dungeon party
What's your ideal engineering team mix?
Oct 6, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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The EM’s guide to AI adoption (without your engineers hating it)
You were told to adopt AI in your engineering team. So where do you start?
Sep 30, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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What's next for manager.dev and for me
A personal update about my career break, the newsletter and the future.
Sep 23, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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$7B startup Head of Engineering and dad of 5 builds a profitable side project
Today is the 4th and final article in the ‘EM-builder’ series.
Sep 16, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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3D No-Code, nights and weekends - a director of engineering’s side project
Today’s article is the 3rd (out of 4) in the EM-builder series!
Sep 9, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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Building a $5K ARR Side Project While Managing 9 Engineers
Today's guest article is the 2nd one in the ‘EM-builder series’!
Sep 2, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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Taylor Barr
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How an EM’s Side Project Reached 1,800 GitHub Stars
The next four articles are going to be a bit different - a series of guest posts by Engineering Managers who built side projects while working…
Aug 26, 2025
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Piotr Osiński
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10 simple internal tools any EM can build in under 2 hours
Had enough of Cursor code-thrashing?
Aug 19, 2025
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Anton Zaides
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