The loudest voice in the room shouldn’t always be the one in charge. If you want innovation, ownership, and real engagement, start by shutting up and listening. Your team already has the answers — but do they feel safe enough to speak?
Feeling like a fraud? You're not broken—you’re in a system that punishes not knowing. Impostor syndrome isn’t a flaw, it’s a signal. Real leadership creates safety, not shame. You’re not the problem. The culture is.
No one wakes up knowing how to debug a legacy codebase held together by hope and half-written tests. You learn by breaking things, fixing them, and doing it again. You don’t need to know everything. You need to be fearless enough to figure it out.
Lead. Don’t Ctrl.
Your team isn’t agile if your codebase is a black box and the only documentation is tribal knowledge passed around in Slack. Documentation isn’t optional—it’s culture. If you won’t write it down, don’t expect to scale.
Lead. Don’t Ctrl.
Six rounds. A ten-hour take-home. A whiteboard deathmatch judged by ego. This isn’t a hiring process—it’s hazing. And the best candidates? They’re walking away before you even see them. If your interview burns people out before they join—you’re the problem.
Lead. Don’t Ctrl.
