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Revised rules of engineering leadership.
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that your mistakes reveal themselves next month rather than next year, because things go wrong very loudly when you’re moving fast. I’ve been thinking a lot about hypergrowth recently, because Imprint’s business is growing quickly and we did a large batch of hiring last year, but also because the AI-tooling shift has changed the pace at which it’s possible to work. lethain.com · lethain.com
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that your mistakes reveal themselves next month rather than next year, because things go wrong very loudly when you’re moving fast. I’ve been thinking a lot about hypergrowth recently, because Imprint’s business is growing quickly and we did a large batch of hiring last year, but also because the AI-tooling shift has changed the pace at which it’s possible to work.
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