Your quiet engineer just shipped a system-saving patch while the loud guy monologued through standup. Volume isn’t value. Learn to recognize and reward the real MVPs, especially the ones not shouting for attention.
Tech leadership isn’t a solo campaign—it’s a co-op game, and someone on your team keeps friendly firing. This post breaks down how to lead without blowing up your own squad. Sarcasm included. Respawns not guaranteed.
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.
