Stay Technical, Lead People, Learn Business: August Edition
3 fresh resources for engineering leaders
Welcome to Gilad's curated list of leadership reads for August.
Three fresh resources, once per month, just for engineering leaders.
Stay Technical
How I use LLMs by Andrej Karpathy. A wonderful combination of a 10,000ft overview of the LLM landscape and deep, practical dives into how to actually use them.
People Leadership
Performance as Product Management by David Longnecker. How do you evaluate the performance of the engineering on your team? This post offers a fresh perspective on how to approach this challenge.
Learn the Business
Is LTV to CAC the Nickelback of SaaS Metrics? by CJ Gustafson. If you work for a SaaS company, then the LTV to CAC ratio is something you probably care about. That's Lifetime Value to Customer Acquisition Cost. As an engineering leader, you need to understand this metric , including all of the pitfalls and how it's abused in practice.
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