Will Larson
Will Larson is Chief Technology Officer at Carta. Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. He is the author of two foundational engineering career books, An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer, and The Engineering Executive’s Primer, which will be released in February.
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Team & Organization Skills
Moving past the zero-interest-rate era requires engineering leaders to stop coddling their teams and start treating engineers as accountable peers who solve real business problems.
"I think that we often treat engineers a little bit like children instead of giving them the responsibilities and ability to actually thrive as adults. And so like, "Oh, the engineers won't want to do..."
Systems thinking allows leaders to diagnose complex organizational problems by modeling processes as stocks and flows to identify where reality diverges from their mental models.
"Systems thinking is basically you try to think about stocks and flows. So stocks are things that accumulate and flows are kind of the movement from a stock to another thing."