Given a jar of peanut butter, a spoon and a challenging problem, I feel set up for success!   I build and manage happy, healthy engineering teams that ship impactful products without sacrificing the user or developer experience. I like to focus on engineering culture (testing, performance + career growth), creating tools for engineering managers, internationalization, accessibility and improving the relationship between engineering, design, product managers and product support.   I'm in a happy place when using storytelling for impact and automating workflows to ensure best practices and culture.   born in Minnesota, I have Texas roots, where i graduated from the university of Texas at Austin. at Stanford, i tinkered with soldering irons in the HCI lab while pursuing a PHD. before finishing, i graduated with a masters and co-founded the machine learning company diffbot. later on i directed engineering at Coursera for six years and am now the CTO of a small startup called Hi Hello.   always a lifelong learner, my favorite conversation topics include: basic income, extending life, open source, crispr, equal opportunity in tech, android and vegetarian restaurants.   Today's topic is about, Should engineering managers write code?     links:   Twitter: @eleith   https://eleith.com   http://hihello.me/   Show Notes:   Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership   The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age   The Type B Manager: Leading Successfully in a Type A World   Radical Candor