Decoding Leadership · 2026-03-04 · 48 min
Seth Engelhard has worked at some of the more interesting companies in the world: GitLab, Netlify, New Relic, and now Observable. He goes into a lot of detail about what practices he learned from these companies, and what the transition to being the head of engineering has been like. We cover topics like building a support network, transparency, career transitions, running meetings well, and being in an async and remote by default company.
38. Damon Kornhauser on experience mapping and building resilient work cultures77 / 10036. Jason Yee on technical and developer advocacy72 / 10037. Ankit Jain on killing code review and solving the new bottlenecks in engineering35. Rebecca Hinds on designing the best meetings34. Todd Etchieson on radical alignment and what great product strategy looks like