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Engineering leadership, systems thinking, and tech industry analysis from Will Larson.

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Trying the Software Factory pattern.
September 20th, 2026•lethain.com
Roadmap decisions rather than dates.
August 11th, 2026•lethain.com
Middle management roles are also a trap.
August 8th, 2026•lethain.com
Generated and suppressed demand.
July 11th, 2026•lethain.com
Make no assumptions.
July 11th, 2026•lethain.com
Revised rules of engineering leadership.
June 15th, 2026•lethain.com
Early and late-stage hypergrowth.
April 27th, 2026•lethain.com
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.
April 12th, 2026•lethain.com
The agentic passive voice.
March 29th, 2026•lethain.com
Judgment and creativity are all you need.
March 11th, 2026•lethain.com
Refactoring internal documentation in Notion
February 5th, 2026•lethain.com
Should you include engineers in your leadership meetings?
January 25th, 2026•lethain.com
Writing Visualizations with Remotion
January 25th, 2026•lethain.com
Curiosity is the first-step in problem solving.
January 25th, 2026•lethain.com
Stripe's Lighthouse Hiring pattern.
January 25th, 2026•lethain.com
Pressure Without a Plan.
January 25th, 2026•lethain.com
Learning from Every's Compound Engineering
January 19th, 2026•lethain.com
Sharing Claude transcripts.
January 10th, 2026•lethain.com
Moved newsletter from Mailchimp to Buttondown.
January 10th, 2026•lethain.com
Building internal agents
January 1st, 2026•lethain.com