Steve Kaliski(@stevekaliski):extremely agree here. momentum cures most things. in many cases "going off for a few weeks" is actually something quite useful to bring others along for and in itself generates momentum. seeing the iteration, small artifacts, and so on. for engineers i've looked up to it's quite useful to understand their minute-by-minute work. the big ship is of course exciting, but pair-{programming|exploring|debugging|investigating} is very helpful. every little victory or discovery builds energy. and people like being on high energy teams!

2026.09.21 01:27

extremely agree here. momentum cures most things. in many cases "going off for a few weeks" is actually something quite useful to bring others along for and in itself generates momentum. seeing the iteration, small artifacts, and so on. for engineers i've looked up to it's quite useful to understand their minute-by-minute work. the big ship is of course exciting, but pair-{programming|exploring|debugging|investigating} is very helpful. every little victory or discovery builds energy. and people like being on high energy teams!

sunil pai@threepointone

2026.09.19 17:24

new post: the senior engineer death spiral a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can.