Building strong, fully-remote, global engineering teams is hard, but it's not rocket science.
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Some recent articles about building global remote engineering teams, product strategy and leadership.
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10 actionable tips to growing a global remote eng team -
Daily standups are a waste of time Nobody is paying attention anyway
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7 tips to get the most from journalling I hated journalling and never saw the value in it but I've recently learned its all in the framing.
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Most early-stage teams bolt on access control at the last minute which is insane. You wouldn’t build a house without a front door. So why build a product without knowing who can see what, and why?
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Themed days unlocked my productivity Last week, I started experimenting with themed days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday for content and marketing Tuesday and Thursday for deep coding and product work
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Access denied! Locking down your app A deep dive into roles, permissions, feature flags, and entitlements
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What makes some AI tools fly whilst others fail While the tools themselves vary from content generation to data agents to transcription services a few themes keep showing up:
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Auth-as-a-Service is dead When I started building products, Auth-as-a-Service felt like a gift. Plug in a few lines of JavaScript, and boom! Sign-up, login, and password reset all taken care of. No more rolling your own sessions or wrestling with bcrypt. It felt like cheating (in the best way).
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On showing up While the tools themselves vary from content generation to data agents to transcription services a few themes keep showing up:
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Celebrate the milestones If you’re building something, don’t rush past your milestones. Pause, reflect and most importantly celebrate the win.
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On being right Sometimes just taking a minute gives you a new lens. You stop trying to be right, and start trying to understand the other persons perspective. I find when I reframe like that, more often than not I learn something.
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Why we built an all-in-one developer platform At Kinde, we set out to solve a problem we’d faced ourselves at other startups, gluing together essential infrastructure that should just work out of the box.
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Adult hours - I don't care when my team works I don't care when my team works. I care what they ship and how it helps the customer.
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Lean as can be: Kinde’s Next.js 13 SDK is here We’re excited to announce the release of the Kinde Next.js 13 SDK. An authentication solution for Next.js that fully leverages App Router, and ships zero JS to the browser.
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Why everyone should start a side hustle For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had a project on the side from my main job. This habit started many moons ago, making websites for local bands, customizing their MySpace