Luna Frank-Reese

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  • Structuring Your Charitable Giving

    I suspect that many of you who read this blog are in a position to do some amount of charitable giving. So, this month, I’m taking a break from writing about all those things… read More

  • The Power of Implicit Storytelling

    Shortly after I transitioned to management, the startup I was working for was acquired by a large multinational company. During the process of onboarding, I was in charge of running introduction sessions about my… read More

  • A To-Do List You’ll Actually Use

    I know so many people who need a good to-do list but can’t make one stick. The more senior you become, the less your work is tracked in Jira or other project management tools.… read More

  • Argument Alchemy

    In my last role, I needed to work closely with teams halfway across the world. We usually only had a couple precious hours of overlap in which to meet. I’d be blinking sleep out… read More

  • Returning to My Leadership Values Document

    When I first moved into management, my mentor suggested I think through my management style. What was most important to me as a leader? What did I need my team to know? As I… read More

  • My Leadership Values

    I wrote the first version of this document in 2020 as a newly minted manager of an engineering team. I return to it when I am building a relationship with a new colleague, handling… read More

  • The Divorced Parents Problem

    I grew up with two loving, clever, and very willful parents. They divorced when I was around three years old, and generally we all got along quite well. However, when I was a teenager,… read More

  • Putting Potatoes on the Crowded Table

    I’ve seen a lot of senior engineers and junior managers, tasked with pushing forward a big and important cross-team effort, hit the same big block. How do you get all those other teams to… read More

  • Climbing the Skill Ladder

    In my post on Framing the Technical Growth Conversation, I shared a skill ladder I use to discuss technical competence at work. If you haven’t already read that post, I recommend reading it before… read More