Field Notes

Short reflections from my IC→CTO journey. Personal takeaways, not advice.

A lesson from my first 90 days as CTO

How I set focus without boiling the ocean.

1:1s that actually helped (pattern I'll keep)

Agenda and signals that made my 1:1s useful.

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When the senior engineer quit

What I learned about knowledge transfer and team resilience.

My first technical debt crisis

How we dug out of a hole without stopping feature development.

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