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Ilya Grigorik

Distinguished Engineer, Technical Advisor to the CEO at Shopify. On a mission to make commerce better for everyone.

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Absorb, Accelerate, Act as a Risk Sponge

Good leaders absorb risk to optimize learning rate, unblock teams, and break through indecision. A well-functioning team applies this fractally.

I am your risk sponge
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Guide to effective meetings

Separate social, info-sharing, and decision-making meetings. Effective meetings require a process owner, agenda, preread, and curated attendees.

Guide to effective meetings
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Good decision-making is good process

Define the problem in own terms, take perspectives, validate signal, decide when to decide, and execute.

Good decision-making is good process
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The Principal Engineer's Handbook

Leadership without management: the what, the how, the tools, and how to measure success as a Principal+ engineer.

The Principal Engineer's Handbook
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Professional Aptitude vs. Tenure

Aptitude is the ability to perform a type of work. Tenure is the length of time in job. Their correlation degrades rapidly.

Professional Aptitude vs. Tenure
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Making Good Group Decisions, Effectively

Good decision-making is good process, used intentionally. Key lessons and principles to apply in your practice.

Making Good Group Decisions, Effectively