Latest
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How I got a performance-driven team to care about security
A culture of security testing requires persistence, empathy, and a shared vision of reliability.
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The shadow culture: Why engineering principles fail under load
Why engineering principles collapse under pressure, and how redesigning systems makes the right behavior the easy default.
Editor’s picks
Cooking up a culture of continuous learning
Continuous learning is an important part of building a collaborative culture.
Build a productive code review culture
Code reviews can be tense and stressful if done incorrectly. Avoid bikeshedding and set good cultural standards with these nine simple steps.
Trust is the ultimate driver of engineering excellence
How can you improve the level of trust in your teams to bolster performance and encourage an inclusive culture.
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
Delivering AI results without a playbook?
Find what’s working at LDX3
Essential reading
How to build an intentional culture
Don’t leave your culture up to chance. Curate your principles and values intentionally to build high-performing, harmonious teams.
On our Culture playlist
Culture, Clarity, Velocity
This session explores how leaders can examine proposed changes and prepare their teams to move from a culture that impedes progress to one that enables strategic change.
Happy teams don’t leave
To retain talent, engineering leaders need to establish an engaging culture within their teams
From hurdles to highways: Crafting a collaborative experimentation ecosystem at GetYourGuide
Discover how GetYourGuide transformed its experimentation platform, navigating challenges to build a streamlined, collaborative, and innovative ecosystem for efficient testing and creativity.
How to build a culture of accountability in your teams
In this panel, we’ll discuss what a culture of accountability actually looks like in practice, and the role of the engineering leader in encouraging a culture of accountability, not blame, in busy developer teams.
Fostering a culture of experimentation in your engineering teams
How can engineering leaders help their reports find joy in their work?
The festival for modern engineering leadership
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
More about Culture
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Meet the tech workers taking a stand against ICE
Hundreds of tech workers are turning up the pressure on their employers.
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The performative trap of public recognition
Ensuring your team members receive proper acknowledgement for their work extends beyond shallow praise.
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Put an end to being the “go-to” engineer
Being the individual people run to in a fire may feel great short-term, but the negative effects can pile up.
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How big tech fell out of love with remote work
The biggest tech firms are all firmly on one side of the RTO debate.
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The cost of skipping hard conversations (and how to have them)
How avoidance can create to leadership debt.
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What to do when you have a bad manager
The best way to deal with a bad manager is to meet them where they are.
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Testing is a skill. Quality is a discipline.
As quality assurance makes way for quality engineering, how do you change mindsets?
Top Culture videos
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Look for the helpers
This is a talk about showing up for each other, in the work we do and in our communities at home.
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In partnership with TailscaleInclusion: What works, and why I’m still talking about it
Explore practical ways to make inclusion part of everyday teamwork, from communication styles to better collaboration and decision-making.
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In partnership with UnblockedYour agents lack context: Here’s how to fix “You’re absolutely right!”
Learn how to build the context layer AI agents need to produce organization-aware, permission-safe, genuinely useful code.
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The magic of crisis
Discover how Staff+ engineers can use moments of crisis to drive lasting technical change and strengthen organizational systems.
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All of this has happened before
A mother-daughter conversation revealing how past tech trends mirror today’s AI hype and what we can learn.
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All of this has happened before
A mother-daughter conversation revealing how past tech trends mirror today’s AI hype and what we can learn.
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The creative technologist
Learn how to build a creative practice to help you become a more creative leader.
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Accessibility needs better marketing
Web accessibility is seen as a chore, something to suffer through. This view ignores the needs of people with disabilities and diminishes their worth as humans and worthy customers. How do we change the process?