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How to make your team read your mind
Why writing a Manager's ReadMe is not weird
Dec 5, 2023
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Anton Zaides
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What's next for manager.dev and for me
A personal update about my career break, the newsletter and the future.
Sep 23
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Anton Zaides
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$7B startup Head of Engineering and dad of 5 builds a profitable side project
Today is the 4th and final article in the ‘EM-builder’ series.
Sep 16
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Anton Zaides
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3D No-Code, nights and weekends - a director of engineering’s side project
Today’s article is the 3rd (out of 4) in the EM-builder series!
Sep 9
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Anton Zaides
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Building a $5K ARR Side Project While Managing 9 Engineers
Today's guest article is the 2nd one in the ‘EM-builder series’!
Sep 2
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Anton Zaides
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Taylor Barr
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How an EM’s Side Project Reached 1,800 GitHub Stars
The next four articles are going to be a bit different - a series of guest posts by Engineering Managers who built side projects while working…
Aug 26
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Piotr Osiński
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10 simple internal tools any EM can build in under 2 hours
Had enough of Cursor code-thrashing?
Aug 19
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Anton Zaides
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Engineering Management in the Age of Agents
Why I'm very optimistic about Engineering Managers
Aug 12
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Anton Zaides
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Why things just work around some EMs
20 questions to check if you're actually proactive
Aug 5
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Anton Zaides
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Team got cut. Scope didn’t.
When you are asked to "do more with less"
Jul 29
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Anton Zaides
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Landing an EM role in 2025
The 5-step process to nail the hardest part - getting an interview
Jul 15
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Anton Zaides
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Alex Kliotzkin
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Stop forcing AI tools on your engineers
What software engineers really need from their managers right now
Jul 8
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Anton Zaides
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When a PM takes over engineering
A PM-turned-EM at Trustly shares what devs miss, what PMs want, and how to close the gap.
Jul 1
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Anton Zaides
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The software engineering "squeeze"
Becoming a software engineer was a life hack. The best profession on earth deserved the wake up call
Jun 24
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Anton Zaides
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Being an Engineering Manager at IKEA businesses
On anti-corruption, legacy systems and business orientation. How it feels to manage engineers in a 'real' and huge business.
Jun 10
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Anton Zaides
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Nikolay Diakov
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Killing the tiny annoyances (in work and life)
Get rid of those tiny daily annoyances that waste your time and energy
Jun 3
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Anton Zaides
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