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Gregor Ojstersek writes Engineering Leadership, a personal blog at newsletter.eng-leadership.com about career and programming. Since 2023, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 95 times, most often “Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 41 in 2025

Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader. Click to read Engineering Leadership, by Gregor Ojstersek, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-12-17
  2. 96% Engineers Don't Trust AI Output, yet Only 48% Verify It
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-09
  3. A Fake Tech Company Scam
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-20
  4. You can have a successful career in engineering without being a manager
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-16
  5. Blameless culture should be a standard in the engineering industry
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-03
  6. How to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering team
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. I have a newsletter blog called Engineering Leadership ( https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/ ) and I write about (you guessed it :)) topics that are all things Engineering Leadership related. The goal is to help: - Engineers who want to progress their careers. - Engineering leaders in the engineering leadership role for the first time. - Seasoned engineering leaders who want to stay up-to-date. - Founders who wan…

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  2. Submitted Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI as a story · 483 points

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  3. Submitted Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry as a story · 155 points

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  4. Submitted Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry as a story · 68 points

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  5. Submitted Context-switching – one of the worst productivity killers as a story · 60 points

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  6. Submitted Engineer's guide to convincing your Product Manager to prioritize technical debt as a story · 45 points

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  7. Submitted Keep a brag list of the wins you achieved, thank me later as a story · 9 points

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  8. Submitted How to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering team as a story · 8 points

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  9. Submitted Saying "I don't know" Is a Sign of Seniority For Me as a story · 7 points

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  10. Submitted Best engineers are focusing on helping others as a story · 5 points

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  11. Submitted A Fake Tech Company Scam as a story · 4 points

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  12. Submitted Productivity Hacks Every Engineer and Manager Should Know as a story · 4 points

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  13. Submitted Have developers started to adopt "vibe coding" significantly? as a story · 4 points

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  14. Submitted Why engineers hate meetings and how to fix it as a story · 4 points

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  15. Submitted I am not a fan of heroism in the engineering industry as a story · 4 points

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  16. Submitted How to Become a CTO as a story · 4 points

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  17. Submitted How Technical Should an Engineering Manager Be? as a story · 3 points

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  18. Submitted Companies Should Prioritize Culture over Obsession with AI Tools as a story · 3 points

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  19. Submitted LLMs: Common Terms Explained, Simply as a story · 3 points

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  20. Submitted Engineering Leaders Stay Calm and Effective When It Gets Personal as a story · 3 points

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  21. Submitted How to Ace Engineering Manager Interviews as a story · 3 points

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  22. Submitted Productivity Hacks Every Engineer and Manager Should Know as a story · 3 points

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  23. Submitted Lessons learned setting up a global engineering org at Google as a story · 3 points

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  24. Submitted From Engineer to Principal Solutions Architect at AWS with Prasad Rao as a story · 3 points

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  25. Submitted Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry as a story · 3 points

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  26. Submitted How to have a top performing, healthy and active day as an engineer or a manager as a story · 3 points

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  27. Submitted From Tech Lead to Team Lead as a story · 3 points

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  28. Submitted Blameless culture should be a standard in the engineering industry as a story · 3 points

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  29. Submitted The power of questioning your first instinct in the engineering industry as a story · 3 points

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  30. Submitted Onboarding with LLMs as a story · 2 points

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