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Whale watching at Mori Point today. We got lucky: a whale surfaced close enough to see its back and dorsal fin, then blew a misty plume. Seabirds dotted the water—some circling, others plunge-diving for fish. It felt like an all-you-can-eat ocean buffet. According to ChatGPT, it was probably a humpback, feeding on sardines. I love this scener...

What What does a tech lead job covers? Some learnings when I watch a L6: Think though to make sure the project can work E2E If there is a component missing, find resources. For instance, if the frontend/UI is missing, or if the backend is missing, I should talk to team who is willing to commit to work on frontend or backend. I should also ...

I am in my L5 and I need to grow to the next level. How to grow to the next level? I think at X it’s hard for me to find this kind of opportunity, where you need to have the project that can give you opportunity to grow. Meanwhile, X can give me opportunity to learn and grow in my tech, and if it there are opportunities to grow in the area of l...

Dos in the project description, you should focus on the difficulties of the project how urgent the deadline is how many obstacles there are lack of staff lack of A, B, C to launch how many communications we need to make just how bad the situation is when we get started ...

I frequently encounter the issue of being given tight timelines with many dependencies. It’s hard to manage the dependencies, especially when some of them are internal. What do I mean? The PM leads the project, and I am working on component A. A contains A1, A2, and A3. The delivery of A1 actually depends on the PM delivering B1, but they can’t...

In most recent projects, we need to deliver under tight timeline. What I found useful: Communication, Communication, Communication Timeline If you are given a concrete timeline, explicitly from the leaders, good, don’t push back immediately. Instead, give the leadership an impression that you can do it break down the tasks into sub-tasks. C...

20% of your time think about how to present, present your work and present your progress. if some one (e.g. manage knows a little that you are collaborating) keeps pinging you, one way is to create a channel with both of you, and your manage in it. So that person won’t keeps pinging you as it is in a channel and they may not feel so fr...

Some learning of recent project management: Goal clear communication with managers get all the dependencies written down Methods clear milestones, priorities, and timeline clear communication with the managers Especially when the project is large with multiple milestones, when you can not speed it...