The Serious CTO
Tired of being the "go-to firefighter" who fixes bugs but never gets promoted?
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💡 Indie Hackers – Focus to hit $10K/mo
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The Serious CTO
August 2025: Developer Reality Check
The new eBook is out. Every brutal lesson from August—expanded, sharpened, and stitched together for devs who are sick of being stuck in the same loop.
Topics include:
• The trap of being the “go-to fixer”
• How saying yes to every fire burns your career
• Why reliability makes you invisible, not promotable
• The difference between leverage and heroics
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July 2025: Developer Reality Check
There’s a new eBook out. It covers every hard truth we dropped in July—sharpened and compiled for devs who are tired of wasting time.
Topics include:
• The 10x dev myth (and who actually delivers value)
• Why senior devs still fail code reviews
• Tools that make things worse, not better
• How “team player” culture can kill good engineering
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A 2-Part series on Observability Engineering, please give it a peek and let me know your honest feedback. This is a bit new for me and I want to make sure it provides maximum value.
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Something is silently holding you back—slowing your code, stalling your career, and making every project harder than it should be. You don’t see it yet, but it’s everywhere. And if you don’t act now, it’s only going to get worse.
Find out what it is this Friday at Noon EST. 🚀
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