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January 2025

How I Lost My Manager’s Trust—and Earned It Back
A Practical Guide to Embracing Vulnerability and Rebuilding Trust
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Rafa Páez
17
Tactical Tornadoes vs. Strategic Sculptors
How to Get the Best of Both to Ship Fast and Design Well
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Rafa Páez
7
Why Your Teams Are Struggling to Deliver (and How to Fix It)
A Team Topologies Approach to Identifying and Solving Delivery Challenges
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Rafa Páez
5
Emancipate Your Team: Leadership Through Intent, Not Control
Empower Engineers and Leaders to Act, Own, and Thrive
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Rafa Páez
2

December 2024

The Engineering Leader: 2024 in Review
Highlights, Stats, and What’s Next for 2025
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Rafa Páez
Design Patterns Are Tools, Not Rules—Use Them Wisely
Why Knowing When (and When Not) to Use Software Design Patterns Is Crucial
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Rafa Páez
2
Managing Remote Teams Can Make You a Better Leader
Essential Lessons from Remote and Async Work — Actionable Insights for Remote Leaders
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Rafa Páez
5
Level Up: A Software Engineer’s Guide to Accelerating Your Career
From Junior to Leader: Mistakes to Avoid, Key Decisions to Make, and Tips to Thrive at Every Stage
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Rafa Páez
2
The Art of Acing Interviews
Why Even the Best Engineers and Leaders Fail Interviews—and How You Can Avoid the Same Fate
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Rafa Páez

November 2024

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