Archive - Alex Ewerlöf Notes

April 2025

Staff+ self-onboarding questions

Useful questions to get a head start as a newly hired Staff, Principal, or Distinguished engineer

Apr 17 •

February 2025

January 2025

Your business value

You should always generate more value than the perks the company puts on the table.

Jan 19 •

December 2024

How vertical/horizontal organizational distance impacts the quality of information network, decisions, execution and deliveries?

Dec 25, 2024 •

Open prison theory

An invitation to intellectual humility, scientific curiosity, and collaborative exploration.

Dec 17, 2024 •

Mapping reliability to accountability

Holding engineering leadership accountable for the reliability of engineering artifacts

Dec 6, 2024 •

Engineering grading systems

Why engineering maturity models are counter-productive, what are the real questions we should be asking, and how to lead the tech to a better place?

Dec 4, 2024 •

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