#35 | Sunday reads for EMs

A curated newsletter featuring five articles for engineering managers: leadership lessons from 14 years at Google (including trust as a latency optimization and the four-word meeting test), strategies for encouraging proactive thinking in team communications, the emerging gap between casual AI users and power users leveraging CLI agents, a 7-level framework for assessing AI fluency across organizations, and the benefits of maintaining a handwritten engineering notebook for clearer thinking.