Tech Lead Blueprint 14/17 - Scaling Yourself

Connect with Lalit on LinkedIn: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalitkundu/>

Tech Lead Blueprint 13/17 - Team Culture

Tech Lead Blueprint 12/17 - Mentorship + Coaching

Tech Lead Blueprint 11/17 - Empathetic Leadership

Tech Lead Blueprint 10/17 - Commit To Project Success

Tech Lead Blueprint 9/17 - Tracking Progress

Tech Lead Blueprint 8/17 - Delegating The Work

Tech Lead Blueprint 7/17 - Team Productivity

Tech Lead Blueprint 6/17 - Become Technically Strong

Tech Lead Blueprint 5/17 - TL Duties

Tech Lead Blueprint 4/17 - TL Archetypes

Tech Lead Blueprint 3/17 - Why do TLs exist?

Tech Lead Blueprint 2/17 - Course Structure

Tech Lead Blueprint 1/17 - What's The Deal With Tech Leads?

Engineer A claims "*I am the Tech Lead for Engineer B*", while Engineer B claims "*I am the Tech Lead for Engineer A*" 🤔🤔

Lalit has seen several variants of this from his experience as a peer reviewer for Google engineers during performance reviews. Lalit discusses the common desire for the tech lead role, the lack of explicit definitions in tech companies, and the implicit nature of becoming a tech lead.

Connect with Lalit on LinkedIn: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalitkundu/>

Efficiency Tips for Engineers (From An AI Researcher/Stanford PhD/Ex-Meta Engineer)

[**Mo Tiwari**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/motiwari/) is an AI researcher, Stanford PhD, Facebook Software Engineer, DRW finance quant, and Caltech Math + Physics major 😳 🤯

The secret to his prodigious career: **ruthless efficiency**. Mo is able to achieve more per unit time than most of his peers.

This talk covers both behaviors and tactics to improve your ability to get things done. Sample topics:

- How and when to process email to minimize disruption.
- Best practices for calendar invites and scheduling
- Keyboard shortcuts that Mo uses dozens of times/day to save time

Download the slides here: <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HET2AgDGeXA7Guhfq0IjaU53wY5AlsOE/view?usp=sharing>

Connect with Mo on LinkedIn: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/motiwari/>

Take the productivity course: [\[Course\] Maximize Your Productivity As A Software Engineer](https://www.jointaro.com/course/maximize-your-productivity-as-a-software-engineer/)

Maximize Your Productivity As A Software Engineer [Part 24] - Go Deeper: Follow Through

As mentioned earlier in the course, being a productive is a never-ending battle. You need to keep fighting, growing, and retrospecting to keep yourself in check and maintain your productivity. 

Take the related courses:

- [\[Course\] Level Up Your Code Quality As A Software Engineer](https://www.jointaro.com/course/level-up-your-code-quality-as-a-software-engineer/)
- [\[Course\] Effective Communication For Engineers](https://www.jointaro.com/course/effective-communication-for-engineers/)

Maximize Your Productivity As A Software Engineer [Part 23] - It's A Never Ending Marathon

With the meteoric rise of the Internet, software engineers are constantly bombarded by magical success stories where other engineers rose almost instantly to the top. However, reality is rarely that smooth and simple. This lesson teaches you:

- What successful career paths actually look like, even among the world's best engineers
- How productivity naturally trends across your life
- What to do when you're facing a serious lack of productivity that seems unfixable

Maximize Your Productivity As A Software Engineer [Part 22] - Introspect And Reflect

As software engineers, we are constantly getting things wrong, including our productivity system. This is why it's important to learn how to evolve and improve over time - There are very things in engineering where you can just set it and forget it. This lesson teaches you:

- How to set up introspection time and why it's important
- What questions to ask yourself when you reflect
- How to process action items to improve your productivity system

Maximize Your Productivity As A Software Engineer [Part 21] - Verify Your Foundation

Work and life are deeply interconnected, despite how much we want this to not be the case. If your personal foundation isn't there, it's hard to get anything done working a mentally-intensive job like software engineer. This lesson teaches you:

- How it's possible to implement literally all the advice from this course and still not be productive
- What to do if you're stuck in a productivity rut that you just can't get out of
- The ingredients behind a healthy personal foundation

Learn more about how to have good work-life balance here: [\[Taro Top 10\] Work-Life Balance](https://www.jointaro.com/playlist/JNCZ1vbRF3NwsOQCqblt/)

Maximize Your Productivity As A Software Engineer [Part 20] - Just Jump In

If there's one thing software engineers love to do, it's prepare. They'll read and watch and listen to countless resources in order to get "ready" to tackle their meaty technical challenges. This lesson teaches you:

- Why "preparing" to do a task is basically the same as doing nothing
- The right mentality you must have to tackle any software engineering task efficiently, going away from the mindset that got you through school
- How to effectively dive into a task and get it done fast

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