Practical Engineering Management

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The Empathy Bottleneck

Why Brilliant Engineers Fail at Support

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Mirek Stanek
Aug 03, 2026
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These years, I’ve been leading a platform engineering organization that serves our entire product engineering team. I have a bunch of incredibly strong senior and principal engineers—the kind of creators and system thinkers who can crack the hardest architectural problems. Greenfield, brownfield, monolith, distributed architecture, old languages - nothi…

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