What Makes a Good Technical Leader?

Jotting down the notes.

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