Stuff I Learned at Carta
a year ago
- #Leadership
- #Engineering Strategy
- #LLMs
- Working in the details: Transitioning from high-level abstraction to deep involvement in details was a key learning.
- Refining engineering strategy: Authored a book on engineering strategy, with practical experience gained at Carta.
- Extracting the kernel: Emphasized the importance of understanding executive communication from the receiver's perspective.
- Adopting LLMs: Led the adoption of LLMs in business-impacting workflows and explored new product capabilities.
- Multi-dimensional tradeoffs: Learned to navigate complex decisions by considering multiple layers of context.
- Navigators program: Successfully implemented a program to ensure senior engineers had direct representation.
- Software quality: Developed insights into building high essential complexity systems.
- Engineering costs: Refined strategies for managing engineering salary costs and explaining R&D investments to boards.
- Smaller learnings: Included policies like 'no wrong doors' and understanding career motivations ('Act Two').