Random internet manager here 👋🏽 I have so many thoughts here and if you don’t know me, I’m known for building psychologically safe and efficient teams. Some of my favorite compliments I’ve received about my management are: 1- “your team would run through brick walls for you”. 2- “your team doesn’t play about you, even when you’re not around” 3- many of my engineers saying they’d following me “anywhere” I know it’s not common but I LOVE trying to be the best manager I can be to each person on my team. However, I understand that mode of thinking isn’t for everyone. But no matter what your mindset is on management, I truly believe a few ways of working will help you build an effective and stable team that’s built to last. First, the quoted post is right. Some managers intentionally don’t grow engineers to keep the team “stable”. But if an engineer feels they don’t have room to grow and/or are unhappy, they’re not going to do their best work. Potentially creating a drag on the team until they finally find their exit. If you have motivated people, do your best to align them with what makes them tick and let them soar. Quality people will always be able to leave, help them see the value in staying. And when it does come time for them to leave, don’t take it personal. It’s a job 💜 Second, if onboarding people is a grueling task, dig into why. Yes, people take time to get organizational context, but are there other onboarding changes you could make to make things more smooth? Outdated documentation? Breaking down knowledge siloes? Engineers who don’t want to help their team? Whatever it is, lessen the impact of the onboarding drag. Third, great employees are hard to find. If you find a few, do you really want to lose them because you’re scared they’ll leave? IMHO, I prefer to give these phenomenal employees a work environment that’s hard to find elsewhere. Giving a crap puts you ahead of majority of managers. Fourth, I want to acknowledge that the industry is in a tight spot right now. If you lose someone, you may not get the backfill. Which can feel scary when the workload isn’t decreasing. But even with the potential of losing the headcount, I still stand by the fact that limiting your people’s growth isn’t the fix here. If anything, managers should lean into coaching and aligning their people with high impact work in case the team’s value ever comes into question. Lastly, remember that your best people can always leave. If they’re good enough, there’s likely always another company that wants them. Refusing to nurture their career will only expedite their exit. My approach is to make sure they enjoy their time under my management so I can slowly but surely build my “forever team” of people I’d hire anywhere I work.

It's giving Severance vibes. What in the heck will the future of work look like?

A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide reuters.com/world/trump-admi…

My husband and I often don’t sit beside each other on planes since we both love aisle seats. Today, an old man warned me a woman may try to steal my husband if I don’t sit beside him and my immediate thought was “that’s f*cking ridiculous”. But then during the flight I remembered at least 3 occasions where a woman has tried to flirt with him because they assumed he was alone 🤣 He obviously immediately cuts it off every time but maybe airplanes are hot spots to meet folks!

My attention is piqued 👀🤠

Spicy little storm rolling through the DMV

"You're allowed to think about the worst case scenario, but you gotta do something about it"

Yeah. Gotta make sure those minorities aren’t recognized for their contributions to the country.

Going from Swedish tap water to Belgian tap water for the first time was a mild shock to my system 😂

Still putting my mom as my emergency contact even though I’m a full blown adult

This Administration has removed the achievements of the Air Force’s first female Thunderbird pilot Retired Colonel Nicole Malachowski. The removal of these articles have sparked criticism because her place in Air Force history is not a Political slogan it’s well documented.

I visited the Eiffel Tower for the first time and was surprised to see so many armed military personnel. I was even more surprised to have a soldier muzzle swipe the lower half of my body with an AR while his finger rested on the trigger as he walked by.

I love when I’m in a foreign country, greet a local in the local language, and they IMMEDIATELY respond in English 😂

I really hope this family can get some kind of closure and peace. I would be so incredibly unwell if this were my mother 😞

Took a sleeping pill this last time and still was only able to sleep 3 hours overnight 🥲

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention. The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean. And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them. Record-breaking temperatures. A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse. The response? Yank out the instruments and walk away. That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency. For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives. The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident. That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first. cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/o…

What conferences do you recommend for quality and deep technical talks?

I hate those little half shower walls hotels install in bathrooms. I’m unable to shower without getting suds and water outside of the shower 🥲