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  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://jacob.blog/notes/how-will-we-know",
  "description": "Effective engineering leadership optimizes for observable outcomes",
  "path": "/notes/how-will-we-know",
  "publishedAt": "2025-03-23T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:ckthoyuvsmkp254fyuinyzb2/site.standard.publication/3mndm6tiamb26",
  "tags": [
    "leadership",
    "measurement"
  ],
  "textContent": "Effective engineering leadership optimizes for observable outcomes, not prescribed implementations. The recurring question is _“How will we know?”_\n\n- Prescribing _what_ to build while paying no personal price for being wrong is a decision-making failure mode.\n- Define measurement, not implementation: success criteria (conversion, errors, latency, etc.) make misalignment visible; teams course-correct when the problem is visible.\n- Fixating on Kafka vs. RabbitMQ can feel like leadership while skipping the KPI that would falsify the effort.",
  "title": "How will we know"
}