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Today’s guest is Michael Lopp, better known as Rands, who is writer of several popular books about engineering management, including “Managing Humans”, which is a personal favorite of mine.
Live at LDX3, we discussed his lifelong writing habit, the importance of giving feedback through stories and the leverage of leadership experience in the AI era.
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🥇 Interview Summary
If you are a 🔒 paid subscriber 🔒 you will find my own summary of the interview below.
It’s the 5-minute takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.
Here is the agenda for today:
✍️ Writing as a lifelong habit
🏷️ The power of naming things
💬 Stories as a feedback tool
🤖 AI and the return of the coding manager
📖 Managing Humans, Managing Robots
Let’s dive in 👇




