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Why It’s Important to Lead With Curiosity
Throughout my engineering career, I have tried to approach many situations with curiosity. Curiosity helps me battle imposter syndrome, it avoids people…
Oct 20, 2022
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Wissam Abirached
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Leaders Should Not Work in Hero Mode
The Elon Musk vs Twitter saga pushed me into writing an article about a topic that I’ve been postponing for too long. I won’t be diving into the Twitter…
Oct 11, 2022
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September 2022
Avoiding the Culture Trap
Last week, I was sharing some thoughts with a colleague about building diverse teams. I figured I should spend some time trying to better articulate my…
Sep 27, 2022
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Wissam Abirached
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August 2022
Thoughts on my First 90 Days at Stripe
I initially intended to only share this post internally at Stripe. I have since tweaked it a bit in order to share it externally in the spirit of…
Aug 27, 2022
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Wissam Abirached
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March 2021
My Best Advice for New Hires
I recently hired four new engineers for the API team at GitHub. Starting a new job is never easy, and I feel like it is especially harder when you land…
Mar 24, 2021
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Wissam Abirached
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✨ Worksheet: Introducing Engineering Design ✨
As a follow-up to my story about Introducing Engineering Design, I share the step-by-step guide I put together for my team when I first introduced this…
Mar 16, 2021
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Wissam Abirached
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Two Stories About Transitioning to Engineering Management
I recently published 2 new stories about Engineering Leadership on Plato. These stories cover different challenges I had to overcome as an Engineering…
Mar 13, 2021
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Wissam Abirached
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July 2020
How to Supercharge Your Engineering Career
I often talk to engineers who feel stuck in their current position and struggle to get much progress on getting promoted. They believe they have what is…
Jul 10, 2020
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Wissam Abirached
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May 2020
The Red Dot Makes You Reactive
The infamous red dot associated with notifications makes us reactive. We see a notification and we tend to drop what we are doing to look at it. In a…
May 27, 2020
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Wissam Abirached
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Why Management May Not Be Right For You
I often talk to engineers who are interested in making the big jump to management and becoming engineering managers, but they're not sure if it's the…
May 16, 2020
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Wissam Abirached
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How to Build Trust Through Estimates
An important part of your work in software engineering is to provide estimates or level of effort to your stakeholders: your boss, your peers, and your…
May 10, 2020
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April 2019
Nurturing a System Mindset
I recently listened to a Tim Ferriss podcast interview with Safi Bahcall, a physicist turned biotech entrepreneur, where Bahcall was talking about…
Apr 16, 2019
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