6 posts
Feb 21, 2022
This is the final post in a three-part series chronicling my reflections on what went well, what could have gone better, and what I learned in my first year as a manager. The first post begins with a bit more preamble on the motivations behind this series, so without further ado…
Feb 20, 2022
This is the second post in a three-part series chronicling my reflections on what went well, what could have gone better, and what I learned in my first year as a manager. The first post begins with a bit more preamble on the motivations behind this series, so without further ado…
Feb 19, 2022
It's been almost exactly a year since I wrote a blog post on my leadership principles and shared it with my team, asking them to keep me accountable as I grew as their manager. Thinking back on my mindset in that moment, I was ~four months into my management journey and largely…
Feb 15, 2021
At the beginning of October last year, I had the privilege of joining the Microsoft Edge PM leadership team as a Program Manager Manager (😊) or PM Manager for short. I'd always known that being a lead was something that I wanted to pursue because while I enjoyed focusing on…
Oct 4, 2020
I recently wanted to set up the Dashcam/Sentry Mode in my new Model Y. After doing some research on the best removable storage device to use, I settled on the Samsung T5 SSD. While researching, I found a number of folks saying that if I was using Windows, I'd need to download a…
Jan 3, 2020
This past fall, I started mentoring a new hire on a different team at Microsoft. My own mentor connected us and I jumped at the opportunity to help pay forward the support I'd received in my own career over the years. The questions my mentee asked in our first meeting got me…