Author, Engineering Leader
Will Larson is a technology executive and author who has held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, Calm, and Carta, where he serves as CTO. His books An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and The Engineering Executive's Primer offer practical guidance on the challenges of engineering management and organisational design. He also writes the widely read blog Irrational Exuberance.
by Will Larson
Larson tackles the messy reality of engineering management: reorgs, on-call, technical debt, and hiring. Systems thinking, not heroics, is how engineering leaders scale themselves and their organisations.
by Will Larson
Larson maps the career path beyond senior engineer, where impact comes through influence rather than code. Staff engineers operate as architects, solvers, or tech leads of tech leads.
The books Will Larson references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Andrew Grove
Grove distils Intel's management philosophy into actionable principles. Output is what matters - a manager's job is to increase the output of their team and adjacent teams.
by David Thomas
Thomas and Hunt argue that great software comes from a craftsman's mindset: think critically, take ownership, and never stop learning. Pragmatic techniques like DRY and orthogonality compound into mastery.
Who Will draws from, and who draws from Will — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.