Reading List. Week 24, 2025

Here are some things I’ve read recently, related to work, that caught my attention, shared without comment.

• When Your Go-To Leadership Style Stops Working
• Rise of the “Operator EM”
• 3 Signs It’s Time to Recharge Your Leadership Battery
• On work processes and outcomes
• How/why to get good at debugging your mind
• How to give pushback to leadership
• Infrastructure Platform Teams
• Short-term vs Long-term
• 9 Questions to Ask When You Start to Notice Underperformance
• Arguing point-by-point considered harmful
• Great Leaders Make People Feel Noticed
• How to communicate the reality of AI-assisted engineering in today’s hype cycle
• Is All Micromanagement Bad? Here’s How the Best Startup Leaders Balance Details and Delegation
• On how long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not