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Notes on infrastructure, software & the work behind it.

Notes from the field

Hello, I’m Lee Briggs.

I write about things I care about, which includes infrastructure, cloud engineering and recently, leadership.

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The knowledge is not the work

In 2024 I made a career decision I had previously avoided: I was going to move into people management. I had toyed with this idea for most of my career, but felt I needed a combination of the right environment and personal...

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The enshittification of enshittification

Over the last six months, I’ve spent a lot of time in the Tailscale community - helping users debug issues, answering questions about how we sell the product and explaining, repeatedly, how we think about the business behind it.

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The Death of Developer Relations

Every year, I gear up for “conference season,” which includes KubeCon NA (typically held between mid-October and mid-November) and AWS re:Invent, always the week after Thanksgiving in the US. As a sales engineer, this time of year is exhilarating. It’s a chance...

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