by Tracy Thomason | Dec 3, 2019 | Career Advancement
There’s a tickle in the back of your mind. It whispers, “Why are you reading this dumb blog post? Your email is stacking up. There are 6,000 messages in your inbox, and 400 are unread. Open your inbox and despair!” If that’s you, I am sorry to hear...
by Tracy Thomason | Nov 19, 2019 | Career Advancement
In every office, there’s that one person whose causes you to cringe when their name pops up in your email inbox. That person sends George R. R. Martin worthy epics full of intrigue, shady characters, mysteries, and technical specifications for your current engineering...
by Tracy Thomason | Oct 23, 2019 | Career Advancement, Leadership
A friend asked me to recommend a reading list for first time engineering managers. While lamenting my inability to narrow my reading list down to a reasonable handful, I realized that I might provide a broader coverage if I tapped a few other engineering managers for...
by Tracy Thomason | Oct 15, 2019 | Career Advancement
There are days when it’s the most painful 30 (or 45 or 60 or more) minutes of your day. Commuting to work. And then you get to do it all over again later that day when you head home. According to multiple studies (2004, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019), your...
by Tracy Thomason | Aug 6, 2019 | Leadership
“I don’t expect anyone else to be as excited as I am. Even with copious amounts of caffeine.” Airon Black, CSPO, PMC-IV, and Extrovert I still laugh about this quote from my conversation with Airon Black, a product marketing manager for BigCommerce...
