Four years ago, I was coming back to work from my first maternity leave, and was working 3 days a week. Week after week, I kept my head down and got my coding

I blinked away the tears. Team morale was crumbling. Co-workers, many I considered friends, were leaving the company. I was at a meeting with senior leaders, and I had just expressed concern that

I was halfway up the four-story vertical ropes course, when my course partner at the leadership retreat decided she couldn't continue any further. We agreed she would energetically cheer me on as I

I walk past the CEO in the hallway. “Hey Jean, it's been awhile. What are you working on these days?” Scenario one: I reply, “Oh I'm working on this big refactoring project. It's

Many years ago, I worked at a five-person startup. I brought crackers and cheese and fruit that I had bought with my own groceries over the weekend and put them in the mini-fridge,

This important lesson about effective leadership took me ten years to learn: Investing in the infrastructure of your relationships is just as important as investing in the infrastructure of your code and products.

The first time I took on a tech lead role early in my career, I had little clue what I was doing. Overnight, I found myself suddenly responsible for the technical and project

I sighed at the important email. It'd been sitting in my inbox for over two weeks, and a reply was long overdue. I felt some frustration, as I had the past couple weeks,

It had taken me two weeks to write the email, even though it was on my mind constantly as something I wanted to do. She replied a few days later, attaching a pdf

I was walking my 4 year-old daughter to preschool last week, and I was noticing some anxiety I had about a workshop later that day. As we crossed the street, hand-in-hand, I figured

One of the most meaningful experiences in my career was a conversation where I turned an engineer from an intimidating adversary into a supportive ally. I'd been working with Jon at Quip for