“If I were stepping back into senior technical leadership at a startup, hiring Scott as my coach again would be one of the first things I’d do. Roles like these can be especially lonely. Since you're the most experienced technologist in the company, you often end up serving as your own manager. Who do you turn to for advice? When I needed help debugging a leadership conflict or a nudge forward on a decision I was sitting on, Scott’s counsel helped me get unstuck. From the start it was clear he was rooting for both me and MedScout, but also that he wouldn't shy away from challenging my thinking or pointing out when I wasn't being honest with myself, pulling me towards hard topics without ever making me feel criticized. He had plenty of his own experience to draw on as well, but he always offered those stories to add to the conversation, never to tell me how to do my job. In the end, what I valued most about working with Scott is how he helped me process what I was learning in real time. Those lessons became part of how I lead rather than just a reaction in the moment. I came out of our work together a sharper, more grounded leader. If you find yourself in one of these lonely seats, you should be so lucky as to have Scott in your corner.”
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Arshavir Blackwell
Across four posts: no switch, no readable regular-versus-irregular category, no dedicated component, and no rule direction that even a gradient-descent optimizer could find. When the strongest available search for a thing turns up only tricks that game the metric, at some point that's an answer rather than a failed search.
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Bill Weinberg
Great article written by 🚀 Eran Kinsbruner highlighting an emerging issue of code ownership and code review. Good read for #developers and #appsec expects. https://lnkd.in/gFBYgAee Sean Casey, Dan Suleiman, Bhawani Singh, Justin Ruth, Rusty Sides, Andrew Schmit, Julien Bruinaud
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