lethain.com
Will Larson
CTO, Carta
Author of An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer. Deep, systems-minded writing on engineering strategy, organizational design, and the realities of senior leadership.
charity.wtf
Charity Majors
CTO & Co-founder, Honeycomb
Blunt, funny essays on observability, on-call culture, and the management/engineering pendulum. Coined much of the modern thinking on the engineer-to-manager transition.
theengineeringmanager.com
James Stanier
SVP Engineering, Shopify
The Engineering Manager. Structured guidance for new and growing managers. Author of Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager.
elidedbranches.com
Camille Fournier
Author, The Manager's Path; ex-CTO Rent the Runway
Elided Branches. Candid takes on management, distributed systems, and the politics of senior technical leadership.
kellanem.com
Kellan Elliott-McCrea
ex-CTO Etsy, VP Eng
Writing on engineering leadership, technical strategy, and what makes teams effective at scale.
benkuhn.net
Ben Kuhn
CTO, Anthropic
Sharp, reflective essays on engineering management, productivity, and decision-making under uncertainty.
boz.com
Andrew Bosworth
CTO, Meta
Boz. Frank reflections on management, decision-making, and leadership from one of Meta's longest-tenured leaders.
world.hey.com
David Heinemeier Hansson
CTO, 37signals; creator of Rails
Provocative essays on running a calm, profitable engineering company on its own terms.
allthingsdistributed.com
Werner Vogels
CTO, Amazon
All Things Distributed. Two decades of writing on distributed systems, scale, and the engineering principles behind AWS from Amazon's longtime CTO.
cra.mr
David Cramer
Co-founder/CTO, Sentry
Writing on engineering culture, open source business, and leading product engineering from a founder-CTO's seat.
lilianweng.github.io
Lilian Weng
ex-VP of AI Safety, OpenAI
Lil'Log. Rigorous, widely-cited deep dives on machine learning, agents, and AI research.