10 Mar Episode 012 – Your Job Changed. Your Identity Didn’t.
SummaryMost engineers stepping into leadership already know what they should do differently. This episode is about why they don’t do it consistently — and it’s...
03 Mar Episode 011 – The Conversation You’ve Been Keeping Professional
SummaryEngineers don’t avoid performance conversations because they’re conflict-averse. They avoid them because they misclassify them as irreversible. They wait until the pattern is undeniable, the...
03 Mar Your Best Insight Isn’t Worth What You Think. It’s Worth More.
You've held back an idea because it felt too obvious. That was probably your best one.Last week, I almost kept my mouth shut.We were in...
24 Feb Episode 010 – What Influence Actually Requires
SummaryMost engineers trying to create alignment are optimizing the output without understanding the inputs. This episode breaks influence down as a system with three inputs:...
24 Feb They promised. I vouched. The trust didn’t recover.
The moment I realized I'd been passing along fiction as fact.There's a specific kind of awful that comes from realizing you've been repeating someone else's...
17 Feb Two Months Late With Cheap Deli Trays (And Why It Worked)
The commitment you keep badly still beats the one you never keep at all.I showed up to a client's office last week with grocery store...
16 Feb Episode 009 – Engineers Sabotage Their Own Leadership
SummaryIn this conversation, Chris Stasiuk explores the challenges engineers face when transitioning into leadership roles, particularly the pitfalls of over-relying on logic. He emphasizes that...
10 Feb Your Client Thinks You Ghosted Them (You Sent 13 Updates Last Week)
When comprehensive becomes invisible, and your most detailed work guarantees nothing gets read...
08 Feb Episode 008 – Why Engineers Stall Decisions Without Realizing It
SummaryIn this episode, Chris Stasiuk discusses the challenges engineers face when transitioning into leadership roles, particularly around decision-making. He introduces the concept of 'decision stall,'...
03 Feb The Day I Finally Felt Valued (And It Had Nothing To Do With My Work)
When a leader closed the door for a personal conversation, I realized what I'd been missing my entire career...