Will Larson currently serves as Carta's CTO. He was previously the CTO at Calm and worked at Stripe, Uber, Digg, and a few other places. In this video he goes over best engineering practices and engineering management.
Will Larson Books:
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RMSHYGG
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RMSHYGG
Making Things Think: How AI and Deep Learning Power the Products We Use: https://www.holloway.com/b/making-things-think
Will's recommendations:
Thinking in Systems: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557
Don't Think of an Elephant!: https://www.amazon.com/ALL-NEW-Dont-Think-Elephant/dp/160358594X
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:02 What makes a great manager?
06:42 Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering
12:33 How to measure an engineering organization?
17:50 What are the commonalities of great engineering teams?
21:30 Is there a trend towards more nimble and smaller teams?
28:30 Investing in technical infrastructure
32:27 Serverless
37:10 Managing the energy of a team
41:40 Remote vs Hybrid
44:40 Engineering strategies
48:50 What makes a great staff engineer?
53:50 Book recommendations and conclusion