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What do you want?
What do you want?
This is a very simple question, but one I’ve struggled with at work and home. In the early years of my marriage, I would sometimes (ok…
Jean Hsu
Dec 28, 2017
2017 Year in Review
2017 Year in Review: A Look at Limiting Beliefs
2017 Year in Review: A Look at Limiting Beliefs
Every year, I read so many amazing year in review posts and I feel like a bystander. “I should do that,” I think, and then waste four more…
Jean Hsu
Dec 26, 2017
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Engineering leadership and Minecraft: Surviving your first night
Engineering leadership and Minecraft: Surviving your first night
A short story
Jean Hsu
Oct 25, 2017
What is this coaching thing anyways?
What is this coaching thing anyways?
“So…what happens in your ‘coaching’ sessions?” A few months ago, my older brother asked me this with a heavy dose of skepticism and…
Jean Hsu
Oct 24, 2017
Navigating the bumpy road from engineer to engineering manager
Navigating the bumpy road from engineer to engineering manager
A few years ago, I woke up and took a look at my work calendar. Back-to-back meetings from 10am to 5pm. Sigh. I rolled out of bed, checked…
Jean Hsu
Aug 30, 2017
Building technical depth as a generalist
Building technical depth as a generalist
Early on in my career, I was happily building out new features and diving into whatever different tech stack presented itself. I prided…
Jean Hsu
Aug 14, 2017
How do you become a leader without explicit authority?
How do you become a leader without explicit authority?
Four years ago, I was coming back to work from my first maternity leave, and was working 3-days a week. I kept my head down and got my…
Jean Hsu
Jul 19, 2017
What’s unique about engineering leadership coaching?
What’s unique about engineering leadership coaching?
As I meet with companies and clients, a question I get asked a lot is, “How is engineering management different from regular management?”
Jean Hsu
Jul 13, 2017
Learning to embrace uncertainty
Learning to embrace uncertainty
This is a rough transcript of a lightning talk I gave at a Microsoft event in June 2017.
Jean Hsu
Jul 5, 2017
Finding your team’s Goldilocks process
Finding your team’s Goldilocks process
Process. It gets such a bad rep. Just like reorgs.
Jean Hsu
Jun 27, 2017
Making your priorities explicit
Making your priorities explicit
or, what to do as a manager when you’re spread too thin
Jean Hsu
May 30, 2017
The next phase
or, why I decided to go into eng leadership coaching and consulting
Jean Hsu
May 18, 2017
Leveling up your code reviews [part II]
or, how to get that LGTM ASAP
Jean Hsu
May 2, 2017
Giving feedback that lands
Giving feedback that lands
At my first internship, I played ping-pong in the game room almost every day (this is actually how I met my husband). There was a week or…
Jean Hsu
Apr 25, 2017
Would you work with them again?
or, how I think about long-term success
Jean Hsu
Apr 17, 2017
Leveling up your code reviews
or, all the baggage and distrust engineers carry with them
Jean Hsu
Apr 12, 2017
My approach to managing up
or, “does Jean have her shit together?”
Jean Hsu
Apr 11, 2017
Holacracy in Practice
one employee’s perspective on Holacracy at Medium
Jean Hsu
Sep 27, 2015
The power of storytelling
I used to think of storytelling as people gathered around a campfire toasting s’mores, of bards singing of Odysseus, of family lore told…
Jean Hsu
Jan 25, 2015
On asking for help
My parents tell me that when I was a little girl, all they heard from me was ziji, ziji! (myself!) when they tried to help me with anything…
Jean Hsu
Jan 18, 2015
The fallacies we hold about ourselves
As a software engineer, I used to think that I wasn’t interested in working on infrastructure or platform work. I felt like it was…
Jean Hsu
Jan 11, 2015
My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer
previously published in 2011 on jeanhsu.com
Jean Hsu
Jul 8, 2014
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