Notes · Kris Ekenes
Half-formed thoughts,
published anyway.
Notes from building things. Product, engineering, the occasional side project. Short by default. Longer when the idea earns it.
Index · 5
2026
- leadership ·teams ·ai
What the EM does when shipping gets cheap
AI makes code cheap. The engineering manager's job is not to ship more of it. It is to make sure the right thing gets built and the team grows up doing it.
3 minleadership·teams·ai - leadership ·teams
Principles don't change, methods do
A leadership workshop made me realize most of us confuse the two. Here is the difference.
1 minleadership·teams - leadership ·teams
What my first company taught me
Three lessons from a wild first job, and why people remain the point.
1 minleadership·teams - engineering ·ai
Working with AI
Capitalism changes what AI tooling means for engineers. Here is what I see from inside an AI-forward team.
3 minengineering·ai - meta
Hello, world
A first post. What this site is, and what it isn't.
1 minmeta