The ordinary work of technical leadership

A useful review or a conversation that gets someone unstuck can take most of the time I expected to spend writing code. It's easy to reach the end of that day and feel I haven't done much.

But if someone was waiting for a decision, making it was part of my job. So was leaving enough context that they could carry on without asking me again.

I still want time to write code. I also need to notice when my own task can wait because someone else needs an answer.