In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Silvia talk about:

• How nobody ever reads documentation beforehand
• The sad state of education
• What terrible handwriting might offer us in terms of improving our communication habits
• rachel's inability to remember the term "career ladder"
• The importance of identifying and codifying hierarchies as your flat org begins to grow
• Discovering the Individual Contributor leadership track
• What leadership means for the Principal Engineer and how this varies at scale
• The value of providing historical context for your colleagues
• Dudes on Twitter, an eternal plague etc
• Becoming comfortable about delegation as a method of self-preservation
• Making the choice to remain an Individual Contributor
• ...and realizing you're a leader anyway
• Wielding authority for good, not judgement of errors
• Transferring incident response skills to one's home life
• Why leadership does not equal management

You can find Silvia on twitter as @dbsmasher

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3