Weekly curated newsletter for CTOs and engineering managers. Provides opinions, insights, and resources to make the role easier and more enjoyable. Includes digital books for CTOs.
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Curated Newsletter
A weekly, curated newsletter specifically for CTOs and Engineering Managers featuring opinionated content and insights.
Book Recommendations
Includes curated book recommendations for CTOs to enhance their knowledge and expertise.
One-on-One Coaching
Personalized coaching sessions to help CTOs improve their leadership and management skills.
Success Stories
Testimonials from past clients showcasing how the coaching has positively impacted their careers.
Book Available
A book written by Stephan that outlines strategies and insights for becoming an amazing CTO. Available for purchase.
Welcome Call
Potential clients can schedule a welcome call to discuss their needs and see if the coaching is a good fit.
Video Content
Short videos on various topics relevant to technology leadership and management.
Newsletter Archive
Access past editions of the Amazing CTO newsletter, which contains advice, insights, and curated stories for technology leaders.
Curated Stories
A selection of articles and posts from around the web, specifically chosen for their relevance to technology leadership.
CTO Advice
The newsletter includes tips and strategies specifically for CTOs to improve their leadership and happiness.
Weekly Newsletter
Offers curated insights and resources for CTOs, including articles and advice on engineering management, leadership, and productivity.
Curated Articles
Features selected articles from across the web to provide insights on various tech and leadership topics.
Thought Coaching
Provides coaching services for CTOs and engineering leaders to help them manage stress and enhance their leadership skills.
Must Read Books
A recommendation section for books in the newsletter aimed at bridging the gap between management and engineering for CTOs and engineers.
Examples of Policies
Includes examples from a high-credibility thread in everything such as coding, cloud, containers, and other technical areas.
Key Messages
Highlights insights into leadership and management, such as avoiding prototypes and simplifying decision-making.
Newsletter Topics Summary
Provides a summary of the topics covered in the newsletter, such as developer survey results, coding errors, and agile practices.
Reading Recommendations
Lists stories and articles recommended for reading, including their estimated reading time and a short description.
Explain With Your Boss At Minute Read
Discusses how great managers work through their direct reports by using structure to simplify. The article emphasizes the importance of alignment with bosses for better results.
What is Old is New Again (19 minute read)
Examines how engineering practices like 'binary' technologies and 'backup' operate in today's technological environment, showing the need for entrepreneurial spirit.
Stop Prioritizing Problems, Measure Queues (14 minute read)
Focuses on solving problems by knowing your queue size, urging the consideration of impact and deadlines on productivity.
Sergeant, Synchronize! (8 minute read)
Explains how Go-Occic Charter recommends flexibility by adjusting card rhythms to available time blocks for better management of tasks.
Diversity is hard (12 minute read)
Discusses the difficulty of achieving diversity and its benefits, highlighting how various perspectives can positively affect outcomes.
Tesla prioritizes 'black and white', 'VIP' drivers' data to train self-driving software (11 minute read)
Addresses how Tesla prioritizes vehicle data for better training of AI, leading to improvements in self-driving algorithms.
The five questions every great GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and similar tools will answer in your Org (10 minute read)
Highlights the essential questions organizations should answer to effectively use AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT.
Team Size Can Be the Key to a Successful Software Project (9 minute read)
Argues that the size of a team can drastically affect productivity and project success, and discusses optimal team sizes for success.
Rustling and nudging Nelson to drive busy IT (13 minute read)
Describes the use of Rust in software development for performance improvements and safe concurrency.
Learning to AI for efficient incident response (13 minute read)
Explores using AI for incident response and how the technology can reduce human workload by identifying urgent issues efficiently.