Navigating the bumpy road from engineer to engineering manager

How do you become a leader without explicit authority?

What’s unique about engineering leadership coaching?

Building technical depth as a generalist

Early on in my career, I was happily building out new features and diving into whatever…

Holacracy in Practice

one employee’s perspective on Holacracy at Medium

I joined Medium at the end of 2011, and Medium has “practiced Holacracy” since mid-2012. During that time, the response to Holacracy externally has gone from “What? How do you spell that?” to “That sounds crazy…

2017 Year in Review: A Look at Limiting Beliefs

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…

Leveling up your code reviews

or, all the baggage and distrust engineers carry with them

Code reviews are ripe for miscommunication and deteriorating trust. 99% of the time, the only comments left are “negative,” pointing out something to…

My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer

previously published in 2011 on jeanhsu.com

It’s no secret that females in Computer Science, both in academia and industry, are scarce. While the percentage of females in other male-dominated fields…

Would you work with them again?

or, how I think about long-term success

Sometimes I get really angry thinking about the tech industry. Every week, reading the most recent cases of horrific cluelessness and incompetency among high-level executives is…