1,066 saved links — one of your oldest habits (the HBR/inc.com self-management library runs to hundreds of pieces) colliding with your newest question: what does leading look like when agents do the work? The 2025–26 saves suggest you think the answer is “engineering management, applied to machines” — and several of your best finds argue exactly that.
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- “Using agents is literally engineering management” — the one-line thesis of this whole page.
- designing an effective AI agent is not so different from becoming a better leader.
- AI-native leaders: the organizational playbook for engineering transformation at scale.
- HBR: only ~5% of employees do sophisticated work with AI — treating it as a reasoning partner — the bar to clear.
- how to become a supermanager with AI — if AI makes “super ICs,” what about managers?
Leading in the agentic era
- the only managers who survive AI do this one thing (video).
- what is agentic AI and how will it change work? · a guide to managing interconnected AI systems · designing a successful agentic AI system.
- Dwarkesh on “AI management” — future organizations will be much better run.
- Mollick’s problem with the Shopify & Duolingo AI memos: urgency without vision.
- “I went all-in on AI. The MIT study is right.” — the thin line between augmentation and abdication.
- The costs: AI doesn’t reduce work — it intensifies it · the new mental fatigue of intensive AI oversight · stop forcing AI tools on your engineers.
- Culture: what an AI engineering culture looks like — structured content, tiered rigor, smaller PRs.
- Field reports: the Google exec spending 20 hrs/week experimenting with AI · managers who can ship code again, thanks to agents · Garry Tan’s open-sourced personal AI setup · an agent skill that answers “so what did you do last week?”.
- Stratechery interviews Google Cloud’s CEO about the agentic moment · how CEOs use GenAI for strategic planning · The AI-Savvy Leader: nine actions.
Engineering leadership, the human kind
- from invisible to indispensable: an EM’s guide to showing impact.
- is now a good time to become an engineering manager? and when, why, and how to stop coding as your day job — the two sides of the fork you know well.
- different styles of engineering leadership · a framework for matching coaching style to situation.
- are you ready for a leadership position? · imposter syndrome: fix the environment, not the person.
- convincing your product manager to prioritize technical debt.
- how Netflix empowers engineers with incident management — leadership meets your SRE work.
- evidence that World of Warcraft leadership translates to the real world — saved, presumably, with a smile.
The presentation masterclass
Your single most-collected leadership skill — a full curriculum’s worth.
- Aristotle’s persuasion formula, applied to the modern workplace — logos, pathos, ethos.
- presentations rise or fall on idea, narrative, passion — substance over style.
- how to present to an audience that knows more than you and the goal is being understood and remembered, not admired.
- make presentations memorable with storytelling structure · how much deck design shapes how executives’ strategy lands.
- Delivery mechanics: “confidently humble and humbly confident” · six body stances for confidence · using notes like a pro · why overpreparing doesn’t make you stilted · three areas to teach yourself clear, confident delivery.
- lowering the anxiety of speaking up and sharing ideas.
The self-management shelf
The long-running HBR habit — the greatest hits:
- Attention: “recognize the value of your attention, and choose how you allocate it” · you have less focused time than you think · don’t let distractions derail your intentions.
- Purpose & strategy: without a clear purpose you fritter effort on short-term wins · strategic-thinking principles, applied to your personal life · follow your blisters, not your passion.
- Anxiety & resilience: the mental traps of anxiety: catastrophizing, mind-reading, overgeneralizing · meditation as a resilience practice · take stock of your positivity regularly.
- Working style: ending “toxic productivity” · shorter deadlines make you more productive · prioritize what reduces future urgent-but-unimportant work · continuous learning is the key to lasting influence — the line your whole vault exists to prove.