It Shipped That Way

The Culture You Want to Build, with Charity Majors

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Honeycomb.io co-founder and CTO Charity Majors joins Allen to share what she’s learned growing Honeycomb from idea to 170-person distributed company, including what goes into being a good manager beyond supporting your reports, how to build a team that feels supportive and safe while still keeping boundaries and limits, systems thinking for teams and cultures, the difference between generic company values and ones that take a stand, and why having a healthy culture is more important than having a novel one.<ul> <li>Charity’s blog, <a href="https://charity.wtf/">charity.wtf</a></li> <li>The <a href="https://www.honeycomb.io/blog">Honeycomb.io engineering blog</a></li> <li>Emily Nakashima on the Honeycomb blog: <a href="https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/becoming-vp-of-engineering-pt1">On Becoming a VP of Engineering</a></li> </ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Powerplant.
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