You’re not too busy—you’re just prioritizing status meetings over the people doing the work. This post unpacks the leadership lie of “no time” and challenges you to stop ghosting your team in the name of productivity theater.
Forget the corporate leadership fluff. This guide breaks down what it really takes to lead in tech—without micromanaging, hero worship, or turning into the boss everyone secretly dreads.
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.
