--- title: Best Leadership posts — June 2023 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Leadership posts from June 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/leadership/best-of/2023/06 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/leadership/best-of/2023/06 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Leadership posts — June 2023 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Leadership posts from June 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Leadership — June 2023 1. 1 [](/posts/how-i-became-a-tech-lead-and-what-i-learned-along-the-way-gsbryl0le "How I became a Tech Lead and what I learned along the way") Article Taro · 3y How I became a Tech Lead and what I learned along the way The role of a Tech Lead (TL) is not easy to understand, for several reasons. The TL role is a hybrid one, not quite a manager, and not quite an individual contributor. 54 1 2. 2 [](/posts/how-to-be-an-engineer-that-pms-don-t-hate-fb2dhmpnk "How To Be An Engineer That PMs Don't Hate") Article Stay SaaSy · 3y How To Be An Engineer That PMs Don't Hate To be an engineer that PMs don't hate: Be responsible with the power of shipping code. Don’t make Product Management your QA team or your project manager. Don't mistake technical knowledge for intelligence. Explain the value of tech debt in a way that is easy to understand. 32 11 3. 3 [](/posts/the-surprising-power-of-documentation-ukgkvrhng "The Surprising Power of Documentation") Article Pointer · 3y The Surprising Power of Documentation Every hour invested into documentation by anyone saves literally x100 productivity hours across the company. Documentation is your secret weapon, the unsung hero of your startup, the gray knight. It eradicates guesswork and reinvention of the wheel. 16 4. 4 [](/posts/when-promotions-become-punishment-cd7xbsdi8 "When promotions become punishment") Article David Heinemeier Hansson · 3y When promotions become punishment The world is full of talented, capable people who'd rather put their own efforts to direct use than manage others. But the natural inclination is to promote senior contributors up a managerial ladder, and out of the trenches. This often ends poorly, turning the promotion into a punishment. 14 2 5. 5 [](/posts/rust-language-gets-new-governance-cauiosbvj "Rust language gets new governance") Article InfoWorld · 3y Rust language gets new governance The Rust Leadership Council will assume responsibility for top-level governance concerns. The change follows some disgruntlement in the Rust community over the project’s leadership and governance. 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