My blog posts on Technical Leadership
Avoid costly technical surprises in your startup investments. Learn the critical red flags and warning signs that experienced investors look for during technical due diligence, with practical frameworks for evaluating engineering teams, architecture decisions, and technical debt risks.
Promoting your strongest individual contributor to technical lead often backfires spectacularly. Here's why technical excellence doesn't predict leadership success, and how to identify engineers who can actually lead teams effectively.
Technical consultants can deliver incredible value or become expensive disasters. Here's how non-technical founders can evaluate, manage, and get real results from external technical teams without getting burned by poor work or inflated costs.
An AI coding assistant suggested "fixing" a deployment error by modifying a production stack, which would have wiped all production data on the next destroy. Here's why trusting AI with infrastructure code without understanding the implications is extremely dangerous.
Your technical co-founder was once your startup's superpower, but now they're blocking every decision and slowing development. Here's how to address co-founder conflicts before they destroy your company.
Offshore development can save money upfront, but without senior technical oversight, you'll pay far more fixing poor code quality, security vulnerabilities, and architectural disasters. Here's how to make offshore teams successful.
AI coding assistants can dramatically accelerate experienced developers, but they're creating a generation of "vibe coders" who can't distinguish good code from disasters. Here's why you need senior technical leadership to harness AI effectively.
Joining as CTO to find technical chaos? Here's your battle-tested 90-day framework for assessment, quick wins, and long-term strategy from someone who's cleaned up dozens of codebases over 20 years.
As a CTO coach with 20 years in tech leadership, I've seen countless startups struggle with this decision. Here are the clear signs and practical alternatives when technical co-founder search fails.
