During the remaining six months of 2023, I've set a goal to revisit some of the most impactful management books that have left a mark on my journey. Care to join me?
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Sam Beckham
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Engineering manager at #GitLab | Talk to me about #designsystems #webperformance, #frontend and #management
Ever wondered what I do all day? It’s not usually this, but watch me work live on #designsystem migrations for the #gitlab Pajamas migration day.
Pajamas Migration Day!
I’ll put the photo descriptions on shortly. Don’t want to spoil them yet.
I’ve been playing with #midjourney this week and the results are mind blowing. Being able to visualise my stream of consciousness is a really strange feeling.
See if you can guess the prompts for these images:
As promised, here are the slides and transcript from my talk last week. I’ve re-titled it, “Lessons from Leadership” and it’s the closing chapter on my time as Acting Chief of Staff to the CTO at #GitLab
Talk: Lessons from Leadership
This week, I gave the first talk with no code in the slides. It was all about the lessons I learned from leadership during my time as Acting Chief of Staff to the CTO at GitLab. Unfortunately, it wasn't recorded. But here are my slides accompanied with a rough transcript.
Replies to this post should make it through to my site from Mastodon now. If I set it all up correctly that is
Since Twitter's API is a dumpster fire, I've set the #Webmentions on my blog to push folks to Mastodon.
Trying to move more and more of my stuff here. Weening off Twitter is difficult though.
This week I wrote about the most powerful tool in a manager’s toolbox, One to One Meetings.
How I do them, how you can get the most out of them, and a template you can use to get them done.
One to One Meetings
Discover the power of one-on-one meetings for engineering managers. Learn valuable tips, including the importance of customized approaches, prioritizing your team's agenda, and avoiding status reports. Get a free one-on-one template to enhance your meetings and improve communication with your reports. Build stronger relationships, foster career growth, and optimize your management style.
AI is everywhere now. Here's how I leveraged POCs and practical AI applications to increase my AI literacy as an Engineering Manager, whilst adding a recommendation feature to my blog.
This is not a list of AI prompts.
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