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Posts from this week:

- Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers.

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Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers.

Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer role. You can also watch the video on YouTube.

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The content itself is largely based on the High-Context Triad of blog posts I wrote in late 2023:

• Layers of context
• Navigating ambiguity
• Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional

I hope you enjoy the talk! (Unfortunately I don’t have a recording of Dan Fike’s portion, but QCon will post their official video at some point, which will have both parts.)

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That's all for now! Hope to hear your thoughts on Twitter at @lethain!

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