The Promotion Paradox

In our 101st episode, we kick off a new era of episode titles as your best engineer becomes the interim manager of their own team — delegation, one-on-ones, the three-year rule, a visit from Chili Palmer, the Cadillac of minivans salesman himself, and the only question that matters: do you actually want this job?

Down the rabbit hole:

Sometimes Your Job is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way, the wolves post I published the day we recorded this

Sometimes Your Job is to Get in the Way, the direct response

Get Shorty, home of Chili Palmer and the Cadillac of minivans

Related Important Things episodes:

EP 32: The One About 1:1s — the investment, not the cost

EP 76: The One About Seven Managers

EP 9: The One About Manager READMEs

EP 20: The One About Management (Pt. 1) — plus Pt. 2 and Pt. 3