Hats Off (And On Again): The Ridiculous Art of Tech Leadership

Being a tech leader means juggling flaming hats while dodging meetings and shielding your devs from corporate nonsense. Let's talk about it.

🧢 The “Visionary” Hat

(a.k.a. Making up the plan as you go)

You’re expected to “steer the ship” with a smile and a vaguely confident roadmap you assembled 20 minutes before your standup. Fake it. Then figure it out. That's the job.

🧙 The Translator Hat

(a.k.a. fluent in C-suite buzzword and junior dev anxiety)

One hour you're decoding “synergize agile growth,” the next you're explaining to your devs why you're not switching the whole stack to Rust. Again.

🪖 The Human Shield Hat

You protect your team from scope creep, chaos, and every “quick fix” idea that lands in Slack at 4:57pm. It's not glamorous, but it's necessary.

👑 The Culture Curator Hat

Spoiler: Culture isn't ping pong tables and pizza Fridays. It's trust. It's listening. It's making space for real humans with real thoughts. Radical, right?

🪙 The Final Hat: The Anti-Hero

You’re not here to be a boss. You’re here to lead.

That means throwing out the old leadership playbook and building something better.

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✊ Burn the playbook. Lead loud. Lead weird.