The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

I think that we often treat engineers a little bit like children, instead of giving them like the responsibilities and ability to actually thrive as adults. And sort of like oh the engineers won't want to do that work. Well, That's actually not good for the engineers to kinda be sheltered from what is important. And so I I actually one of the I think highlights is that I think we're coming back to this moment where we can actually treat engineers

Like our peers and put them in their really senior leadership roles and not have this kind of baseline assumption of like oh we have to coddle them. or hide them from the real problems and this is how they're gonna get the opportunity to grow as well. Today, my guest is Will Larson, one of the most requested guests I've had on this podcast. Will is currently CTO at CADA, he's been a software engineering leader at Stripe.

Uber and Calm. He's the author of two essential books for all engineers. An elegant puzzle and staff engineer? And he's releasing his newest book, The Engineering Executives Primer, in February of next year. He also publishes regularly on his blog.

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