Stop saying “technical debt”
Everyone who says "tech debt" assumes they know what we’re all talking about, but their individual definitions differ quite a bit.
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Chelsea Troy
Chelsea is a Staff Data Engineer at Mozilla, focused on the role of data privacy and scientific rigor in automation. She is a maintainer for the Roc programming language and mentors formerly incarcerated technologists through Emergent Works. She teaches Python & Mobile Development at the University of Chicago Master’s Program in CS, hosts workshops for O’Reilly, and writes at chelseatroy.com. Chelsea flings barbells around for fun. She drives an electric cafe cruiser named Gigi.
To improve as an engineer, get better at requesting (and receiving) feedback
It’s easy to ask for, and even want, feedback in a sort of theoretical sense. But soliciting and responding to feedback are, themselves skills.
How do we get a tech team to make a big technical change?
Big changes need more than technical chops to get them implemented.
"Data driven" decisions aren't innovative decisions
If you want to innovate new solutions, you can't rely on data about existing solutions.
