It Depends: Lessons in Technology Leadership

Two chapters from the book this week! Discussing a deliberate approach to managing your calendar and tracking how you actually are using your time, and then how to approach your work with thoughtfulness and decisiveness instead of just making decisions based on instinct.

More information about the book: https://itdependsbook.net/

Ask a question or request a signed copy: contact@itdependsbook.net

The newsletter: https://kevingoldsmith.substack.com/

Taking a day, once, twice, or even four times a year to reflect on how things are going and think about where you want to go next is a valuable practice. This episode includes how to approach this practice and get value from it. This episode also includes Chapter 5 of the audiobook "It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022" by Kevin Goldsmith. 

It Depends Book website: https://itdependsbook.net/

CTO Podcast link: https://pod.link/1356275803/episode/7a88eac00279eb4bd3172b9a59d21ab7

Jason Cavness Experience Podcast Link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoUR0bj9BGQ&list=PLh4aquRHsHCZfVVGNO7IY9-5Z0IF8XgwZ

Have a question you'd like me to answer? Send it to: contact@itdependsbook.net

Buy the book on Amazon or bookshop.org

One of the questions I most frequently get from engineering leaders or aspiring leads is "how much coding do you do?" or "How do you handle coding and managing?" One of the hardest things for me in my development journey was letting go of developing features on the products I worked on. This episode is all about that. I include Chapter 4 of the audiobook for It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022, which is all about this step in your development as a more senior engineering leader.

Links:

• The book website: https://itdependsbook.net/
• My talk on the same subject: https://www.kevingoldsmith.com/talks/when-why-and-how-to-stop-coding-as-your-day-job.html
• Have a question you'd like me to answer? Send it to: contact@itdependsbook.net
• Buy the book on Amazon or bookshop.org

Chapter 3 from It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022

In this episode, we discuss my experience building an exercise to help me better understand what is important to me in a role or company and then how I used the results to help prepare for job interviews. I also discuss some of the mistakes people make when interviewing for roles in a downturn with how they present themselves in job interviews. If you're currently looking for a job, or thing you will in the future (we all will), this episode will be helpful.

Some links:

• It Depends book information: https://itdependsbook.net
• Newsletter: https://kevingoldsmith.substack.com
• Questions/contact (I'll answer them in the podcast or newsletter): contact@itdependsbook.net
• Living in an Employer’s Market as a Developer article: https://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2020/03/31/living-in-an-employers-market-as-a-developer/

How can top-down culture change be effective? Looking at Microsoft and Yahoo as examples.

Links:

It Depends book: https://itdependsbook.net

Questions/comments: contact@itdependsbook.net

We discuss how critical failure is to innovation and how to handle failure well. We talk about how software used to be written, Clippy and why it was bound to fail, how Spotify uses the Think It/Build It/Ship It/Tweak It framework to build fail-safe products, and more...

links:

• Newsletter: kevingoldsmith.substack.com
• Book: itdependsbook.net
• Videos of the talk: kevingoldsmith.com/talks/fail-fast-fail-smart-succeed.html

Welcome to the podcast! This episode introduces the podcast and includes the introduction to the book "It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022" by Kevin Goldsmith.

Links:

Book info https://itdependsbook.net/

Blog https://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/