Email · 8 min read
What Your DMARC Reports Are Trying to Tell You
DMARC aggregate reports are the closest thing email has to server logs for your sending reputation. Here's how to read them — and what they're actually telling you.
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Email · 12 min read
Email Authentication Explained: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for Engineers Who Don't Do Email
A clear, practical guide to the three technologies that prove your emails are legitimate — written for engineers who know distributed systems but not email infrastructure.
Management · 4 min read
AI and Tech Management: Fewer Seats at the Table
Developers using AI tools ship features faster. Designers iterate more quickly. Data scientists analyze in minutes what used to take days. More output per person means fewer people needed for the same goals. Which means fewer managers.
Management · 2 min read
Do you struggle to do effective 1:1's? This book can help!
The reality is often far different — rather than being a mechanism for the employee to share questions and concerns, a 1:1 can easily become a mechanism for the manager to get status updates, share information on upcoming projects, and solve problems. It becomes a command performance that, far from putting the employee at ease, raises their stress level.
Learning · 2 min read
Learning a New Computer Language? Build Something!
I reached for a trick I’ve used many times when learning new computer languages. I decided to build something interesting but hard. It needed to be something that would require me to use the language’s features.
Management · 3 min read
Your First Priority As a Tech Manager
I thought I was the one who had to get the work done — to be the expert, to guide the technical direction of the team, to be the idea guy. In football terms, I saw myself as the running back — give me the ball and watch me score the touchdown. I couldn't have been more wrong.
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