What Makes a Good Technical Leader?

Jotting down the notes.

• Technical leadership - databases, distributed systems, compute fundamentals, Cloud security, scaling and tradeoffs, build vs buy, etc.
• Product sense & strategy - how to derive intuition from market research, and how to validate ideas before committing the team
• Leadership style - org design, leveling, talent strategy, how to drive the team, how to evaluate them and apply productive pressure, how to hire
• Technical communication - simplification of systems, and use of analogies
• Living the values & principles to build rapport and trust with their first team - increasingly more important as the business grows bigger