In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Silvia talk about:
* How nobody ever reads documentation beforehand
* The sad state of education
* What terrible handwriting might offer us in terms of improving our communication habits
* rachel's inability to remember the term "career ladder"
* The importance of identifying and codifying hierarchies as your flat org begins to grow
* Discovering the Individual Contributor leadership track
* What leadership means for the Principal Engineer and how this varies at scale
* The value of providing historical context for your colleagues
* Dudes on Twitter, an eternal plague etc
* Becoming comfortable about delegation as a method of self-preservation
* Making the choice to remain an Individual Contributor
* ...and realizing you're a leader anyway
* Wielding authority for good, not judgement of errors
* Transferring incident response skills to one's home life
* Why leadership does not equal management
You can find Silvia on twitter as @dbsmasher
You can find Silvia's recent blog post here: https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3