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Leadership Doesn’t Abandon Team

Posted on January 6, 2026January 6, 2026 by William Li

I read a post recently which was supposedly about where Leadership should spend time.  It embodied everything I think is wrong with corporate leadership today. TLDR, the claim was that if I, as a leader, are constantly managing under-performers, I’m not investing in the people who are actually driving the business forward.  Leaders who find…

(AI) Tools don’t make products.  Strategy makes products.

Posted on December 20, 2025December 31, 2025 by William Li

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve been hearing and seeing a lot about the introduction of AI into software development processes.  I’ve seen it happen myself – the impetus can come from both developers wanting a better way to automate drudge code conversions as well as upper management wanting to reduce headcounts. AI-assisted software…

Managing multiple remote engineering teams for fun and profit

Posted on December 9, 2025December 31, 2025 by William Li

COVID-19 drove many workers home, and now many companies are trying to reel those same workers back to the office.  Is this smart? Answer: (as always) It depends.  I’m going to talk a bit about this today from the point of view of software evolutionary pressure, rather than the more common (but perhaps more important)…

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