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James J. Boyer
Personal blog · jamesjboyer.substack.comcareerbusiness
James J. Boyer writes Engineering Leadership Bites, a personal blog at jamesjboyer.substack.com about career and business. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Is This Thing On?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Honest, real-world takes on team dynamics, delivery, and culture for people who lead (or want to lead) engineering teams. Click to read Engineering Leadership Bites, by James J. Boyer,
Most-linked posts?
- Is This Thing On?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-05
- Being Liked or "Mistaking Harmony for Health"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-29
- A Cautionary Tale for Stupid Idiots Who Think They Can Lead with Integrity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-30
- Performance Managing to the Room or "How to Stop Sucking at This"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-20
What Hacker News says?
Submitted The industry is in a productivity panic as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Cautionary Tale for Stupid Idiots Who Think They Can Lead with Integrity as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is This Thing On? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beautiful, Irrelevant Things: The Efficiency Era Ends the Way ZIRP Began as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Quiet of Competence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Productivity Panic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Portrait of the Software Engineer, 2031 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Managing to the Room or "How to Stop Sucking at This" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metrics That Actually Matter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Won't Fix Your Broken Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted So You Want to Lead with Integrity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Liked or "Mistaking Harmony for Health" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Portrait of the Software Engineer, 2031 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Portrait of the Software Engineer, 2031 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Managing to the Room as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bullshit Metrics and the Cowards Who Love Them as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing by Coincidence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Liked or "Mistaking Harmony for Health" as a story · 1 points
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