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Edpisode 515: Swizec Teller on Becoming a Senior Engineer

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Technical Leadership Is More About Keeping a Coherent Technical Vision

technical leadership is more about, ok, we got a project that is way bigger than a single person can ve. Its something that we're going to be working on over an entire quarter and there's going to be three teams working on it. And you need somebody who is kind of at the centre of all this, or adjacent to the centre, who can keep a cohe ant technical vision for the project. So set a vision in your mind, hopefully alline that vision with everyone else on the team, because it's much eas to nudge them in a direction if they agree with you. Kind of like cat herding to an extent, but kind of just with nudging and

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