5/ I talked with them and another of their engineers for over an hour, discussing the high-priority tasks they've been given, talking over platforms they could target, and how to take their first feature and push a spike through each level of delivery.

6/ I rather talked too much (it's a failing of mine when I get going) but worked to make space for dialog, and tried to let them lead the conversation (with mixed success).

4/ Today I had a conversation with another feature team lead, who's been having a hard time figuring out how to bootstrap their team's area of responsibility. They have the technical chops, but aren't sure how to get started. Did they want to get on a call and talk?

8/ I can only aspire to support and encourage my peers like Jo did.

Be a Jo.

3/ I've been doing my best to fill the gaps Jo left from a technical perspective; I already provide a good amount of direction on technical issues, and I've been operating as a feature team lead for a while now.

7/ At some point, my connection dropped, and when I finally got the VPN back up and back on the call, this lead said "while you were gone, we decided that you're our new Jo".

I have little desire to get into management, but this may be the best work compliment I've ever had.

2/ This manager (call them Jo) started in engineering, was very technical, stayed relevant, and managed to strike a great balance of leading, protecting their people from the worst of upper management decisions, encouraging us to grow and improve, and was generally awesome.

Is there anyone @bandcamp that can help me with a broken gift purchase #bandcamp #radiohead oops

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~20 meetings this week at $dayjob. This is my new normal.

@pixel Also you got me posting on Twitter and now I feel so dirty

@pixel I hear you, but I feel like we have so many of those. I miss working in actual “Mac” apps sometimes. I’d like to have something like Drafts, with a post list, and a live “preview” that rendered the post I’m editing with the blog’s styles.

One button push to publish.

@pixel I just like the idea of not having to edit in one app, and upload in another. However there are some nice markdown apps like @draftsapp, so :shrug:

@pixel Mac app to compose and manage posts, render to disk or s3 or what have you - I’d use it.

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