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Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists
The best engineers are burning out, and it’s not because of the workload.
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The manager’s path in the age of AI
Which management skills AI is genuinely changing, which stay non-negotiable, and how to tell the difference.
Editor’s picks
1:1s Foundations: best practices for conversations that count
Building a safe space during your one-to-one meetings, where your direct report can be open and honest
Performance season made easy with this proven strategy
Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
New York • September 8 & 9, 2027
Loved LDX3 New York? Pre-sale tickets for 2027 are now available.
Essential reading
Reasons to step into a leadership role (and the reasons not to)
Thinking of becoming an engineering leader? Let Pat Kua help you with the first step of the journey.
On our Engineering Management playlist
It’s time to pay off your management debt
Explore management debt’s impact on organizations, uncovering inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Learn actionable strategies to identify, track, and eliminate management debt for sustainable growth.
Resilient Management: Lara Hogan in conversation
Resilient Management is a guide to building, inspiring and leading resilient teams
Managing authentically across levels
Learn how to manage engineers at all levels with practical tips for adapting your style to support growth and foster a thriving, high-performing engineering team.
Effective communication: Mastering growth-oriented feedback
Discover strategies for delivering feedback that builds trust and openness. Learn science-backed techniques to make feedback constructive, approachable, and growth-focused, helping teams unlock their full potential.
Tactics for developing junior engineers
How to plan out intentional time for junior talent to be as productive as possible
The festival for modern engineering leadership
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
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Tackling the junior developer crisis in the age of AI
How to keep AI in the workflow without losing the apprenticeship: three exercises that rebuild debugging, explanation, and critical thinking when polished output hides shallow understanding.
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I thought my team knew what mattered
Why people don’t build connection to their work from what you say at all-hands, and how to translate what matters into something that sticks week to week.
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Cold start crisis leadership
The specific leadership moves that work when you’re managing a crisis with no prior relationships, no system context, and a hard deadline, and why crisis leadership requires a different playbook entirely.
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Protecting innovation under pressure: A practical loop for product and engineering teams
The specific leadership moves that work when you’re managing a crisis with no prior relationships, no system context, and a hard deadline, and why crisis leadership requires a different playbook entirely.
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Learning to see: Visualising the systems that drive your team
Visualization techniques (scatter plots, value stream maps, investment reports) that reveal where your team’s work is actually getting stuck before you try to fix it.
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Honing the right engineering skills in the age of AI
How to design work, coaching, and expectations so engineers grow in the areas where human judgment still outperforms AI.
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Re-engineering the software development playbook
How AI is shifting bottlenecks upstream as implementation costs near zero, and what that means for planning, communication, and where engineering expertise now sits.
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Four dimensions of burnout: An anti-burnout framework for the AI era
A practical framework to help engineering leaders recognize burnout early, rebalance demands, and recover while staying effective and healthy.