Katel LeDû is the CEO of A Book Apart, where she helps passionate tech community members become successful authors. She’s also a coach focused on helping folks cultivate creativity, develop social awareness in themselves and at work, and embody sensitivity and empathy as superpowers.

We cover a lot, including:

• uncommon career paths
• the maturity of industries
• egos and email
• pauses before answers
• capitalism
• people trusting themselves
• work as savior
• entrepreneurship
• the concepts of small as big, dangerous departures

Connect with Katel on LinkedIn and check out Katel's recent book, You Should Write a Book, here.

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Christina Entcheva is a Director of Software Engineering at GitHub. Christina has a background as a software engineer, product manager, and designer. She’s passionate about open source software, radical candor, and salads!

We cover a lot, including:

• who sets the standards for good performance
• socializing career ladders
• the difference between being challenged and underperforming
• modeling constructive feedback
• perfectionism
• weight training with a trainer
• Performance Improvement Plans
• what keeps managers up at night
• favorite moments of management

Connect with Christina on LinkedIn and read more about Communities @ GitHub! Christina's team owns a bunch of GitHub features including:

Discussions: https://github.com/features/discussions

Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors

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MJ is an Engineering Manager for the API and Partnerships team at Honeycomb. MJ's team works on exposing APIs and integrating Honeycomb capabilities with the broader software ecosystem to allow users to take advantage of Observability from anywhere!

Before Honeycomb, MJ spent 12 years as a consultant, developer, and leader at companies like ThoughtWorks and Apple. Outside work, she enjoys long walks listening to an audiobook or podcast (current phase - true crime or cults). She also loves legos an lazy weekends and binge-watching television shows.

We cover a lot, including:

• regular check-ins about career direction
• Will Larson's Career Check-up
• financial stability
• artifacts and structures
• specialists and innovation
• generalists and versatility
• embracing the way things are done elsewhere
• appreciating context switching
• Lara Hogan's Voltron exercise
• feeling stuck in a career
• how to recognize a need for change

Connect with MJ on LinkedIn and read more about Honeycomb here.

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