Leith Abdulla's guest appearances

Leith Abdulla

SimpleLeadership Podcast

Edmond Lau

Lara Hogan

Jean Hsu

Nick Caldwell

Darragh Curran

David Lynch

Joe Goldberg

Claire Lew

Patrick Kua

Liam Martin

Jon Thornton

James Hood

Camille Fournier

Jen Dary

Jason Wong

OwlTail

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.comhttp://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

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   <a href="https://eleith.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://eleith.com</a><a href="http://hihello.me/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://hihello.me/</a>   Show Notes:   <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Empathy-New-Language-Leadership-ebook/dp/B078MC84D9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1526245462&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=michael+ventura+applied+empathy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alliance-Managing-Talent-Networked-Age-ebook/dp/B00JTJ84EW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1526246821&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+alliance" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Type-Manager-Leading-Successfully-World-ebook/dp/B00OQSF8C2/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1526246981&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=the+type+b+manager" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Type B Manager: Leading Successfully in a Type A World</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Kim-Scott/dp/B01KTIEFEE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1526247022&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=radical+candor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Radical Candor</a>

Should Managers Write Code with Leith Abdulla