6 ways staff engineers help reach clarity

Alex Ewerlöf (moved to substack)
1 min readMar 28, 2022

One of the things that I catch myself doing more and more as a staff engineer is to help individuals, teams or sometimes the organisation reach clarity. I’m no oracle and this is not rocket science but in this article I’d like to go meta and clarify the process of reaching clarity with some examples.

Why?

Until we reach singularity, businesses are run by people. People come from different backgrounds and bring different perspectives to the table. Every person hired to the company, adds to its DNA. And just like DNA, those nucleobases (generally noted as C, G, A or T), people need to be aligned with each other and the organisational goal to deliver the maximum impact. Unfortunately this also means that no matter how great the employees are, misalignment can ruin the end result.

source: LinkedIn

I’ve recently moved to Substack. You can read the full article here:

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