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AMA with @colin starts now!

Colin went to Waterloo and worked on a variety of projects there - most notably he was CTO of Yelplive & founder of BitIndy.

He then worked on the payments team at Coinbase and moved over to Google where was was an eng manager for ~4 years.

Now Colin is building @paragraph full time!

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what's the #1 quality or skill an IC has to have in order to make the leap to leadership?

backend eng; full-stack curious

writer, icon, retired rave queen

#1 quality or skill is probably understanding the bigger picture. Eg:

- how does your work fit into broader company goals
- can you articulate the importance of your work
- are you working with the right teams/dependencies (eg not duplicating work!)

I've seen too many engineers be narrowly scoped to their day-to-day code. I think this is incorrect if you want to go into management. You should be constantly thinking more broadly and doing what you can to further your team's/company's goals, not just your own tasks.

This may be a good future blogpost!