Work-Life Balance as a Manager

As an IC, you close your laptop at 6 PM, log off, and forget about the work unless you are oncall.  As a manager, you check Slack at 10 PM because someone might need you. Your calendar looks like there’s no time to do anything and you haven’t had an actual deep focus hour in weeks. Sounds familiar? Welcome to […]

The Real Work Is Social

I get along with people. I talk, I joke, I do the normal office stuff. But even with that, something about how work actually works has always felt off. You think the job is mostly about building things, fixing things, or shipping things. Then you realise a stupid amount of your success depends on this invisible social layer. It’s not […]