Pat Kua
@patkua.bsky.social
Former CTO/Chief Scientist @N26, @ThoughtWorks alum. Runs http://levelup.patkua.com and http://techlead.academy He/him
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Leadership Keynote – The CTO as a Global Citizen with Erica Stanley
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To balance out my earlier whinge, has anyone caught the German entry for #ESC… open.spotify.com/track/4kbkYb... Ein total Ohrwurm 😅 (catchy song). And first for a while sung jn German #Baller
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Abor & Tynna · Bittersüß · Song · 2025
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One of the strangest experiences living in Germany is the love of #Datenschutz (data privacy). Companies call you with your contact details and still have to "verify" you, even though they called you!
Posting this after running a workshop to midnight last night. I don't normally run training so late, but one of the wonders of modern tech (and post-pandemic remote working) is that I can support leaders and managers in other parts of the world 🥳
Excited to deliver the opening talk for day two of #CTOCraft London where I’ll be talking about CTO archetypes
It’s one of the reasons I like to focus on leadership as a verb, rather than a noun. “Demonstrating leadership” can be done by everyone regardless of their title, role or position. Not always easy, but doable
Charity Majors@charity.wtf · last yr.Tbh I'm not fond of the term "leader" bc it implies the existence of "followers". I prefer thinking about it in terms of agency and ownership, or autonomy and giving a shit. I've often jokingly said I owe my career to a lifelong overdeveloped sense of ownership.
Many people want to know how to build highly effective teams and are unaware of the research Google did 10 years 😅 ago about the characteristics of highly effective teams. Here's my take on Project Aristotle and how leaders can use it to build highly effective teams. www.patkua.com/blog/project...
🔥Hot off the press: Issue #287 of Level Up, a curated newsletter for leaders in tech #cto #vpeng #engmanager #techlead w/content from @gregorojstersek.bsky.social @ashleybelanger.bsky.social @abangser.bsky.social @martycagan.bsky.social @jasongorman.bsky.social & more! See https://buff.ly/4hnaTHv
I'm excited to speak at CTO Craft Con: London, 10th-11th March! I'll be giving a new talk, "The CTO Spectrum" to talk about some of the archetypes I've come across in my career, and even support today as a CTO Coach.
I like to run a lightweight hashtag#retrospective at the end of my workshops as a way of getting feedback. I usually get some feedback on the "Do Differently", but this is the first time I can remember where it was completely empty 😅
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TIL that Scotland (and Northern) has different public holidays (i.e. bank holidays) than England/Wales 😅 For some reason I assumed they'd share the same Easter holidays 🤷
Last week, during a Technical Leadership Masterclass in #Norway I learned that being called a “Potato” 🥔 means being an all rounder 😂
It's that time of year, where I have to retrain typing 2025 instead of 2024 😅
Blog post: I wrote up a huge article with photos and takeaways from every session I saw at YOW! this year (which was almost all of them). Thanks to all the speakers, volunteers, and the YOW team for making it happen! www.web-goddess.org/archive/26558
It's coming up to the end of the year, so due to popular demand, I'm sharing an updated end-of-year Retrospective template for 2024. Make a copy of this template and use it to reflect on this year 🥳 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
All set for the last of my Technical Leadership Masterclass workshops in Australia, this time in #Sydney as part of @yowconf.bsky.social Looking forward to helping people to level up 🥳
At @yowconf.bsky.social #Brisbane today. If you want to chat about technical leadership or management, catch me around in the breaks or at my talk (in the red room) just after lunch
At #Yow24 and @allenholub.bsky.social reinforcing some of the ideas from my Technical Leadership Masterclass… “The language of higher of management is money” (Yes! And I would also add time)
I look forward to heading down under to present a new talk at YOW! Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, "Level Up: Choosing the Technical Leadership Path"
Exciting news to share! I'm speaking at hashtag#CTOCraftCon London next year (Mar 10/11)! I'll discuss different CTO archetypes and the dynamics that drive the "shape" of the CTO role.
Congratulations on being over capacity, @bsky.app! A throwback to a bygone era, updated for our new home, made by me as requested by @edfff.com.
I think this will be relevant for many many years to come 😅
Emily Webber@ewebber.bsky.social · 2y agoReposting my popular post from elsewhere. It's still relevant 6 years later. I made a handy flowchart called "Should I say resources?" Please use as needed.
I ran an informal survey over my newsletter about the "new normal" work modes, which you can read about here: www.patkua.com/blog/results...
Results from Work Mode Survey
I ran a survey over a month ago to determine the “new normal” work mode. Over a couple of weeks, my newsletter received 100+ responses, ... Read more
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