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Hi folks. I'm Will aka @lethain. If you're looking to reach out to me, here are the ways I help. If you'd like to get email from me, subscribe to my weekly newsletter.

I've worked at Calm, Stripe, Uber, Digg.

If you enjoyed this, you might also like my books, An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer.

Popular.

  1. Write five, then synthesize: good engineering strategy is boring.
  2. Managing technical quality in a codebase.
  3. Work on what matters.

Talks.

  1. Speaking and podcasts in 2020.
  2. "How to successfully design organizational processes"
  3. "Investing in technical infrastructure"

Recent.

  1. How to present to executives.
  2. Early Edition of "Staff Engineer" coming Jan 31st.
  3. Pacing and isolating change.

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