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.
đź‘‘ 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.
🔥 Read the full post at LeadDon'tCtrl
✊ Burn the playbook. Lead loud. Lead weird.
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