Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers. @ Irrational Exuberance

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This is the weekly digest for my blog, Irrational Exuberance. Reach out with thoughts on Twitter at @lethain, or reply to this email.


Posts from this week:

- Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers.


Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers.

Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer role. You can also watch the video on YouTube.

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The content itself is largely based on the High-Context Triad of blog posts I wrote in late 2023:

I hope you enjoy the talk! (Unfortunately I don’t have a recording of Dan Fike’s portion, but QCon will post their official video at some point, which will have both parts.)


That's all for now! Hope to hear your thoughts on Twitter at @lethain!


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