Jade Rubick
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Jade Rubick
@jaderubick.bsky.social
I write the Engineering Leadership Weekly newsletter at https://www.rubick.com and host the Decoding Leadership podcast.

Human specialist. He/him. Former VPE at New Relic, Gremlin, Mode, etc.

Music at: https://bsky.app/profile/jadethree.bsky.social
Reflected Power is using power and authority you don't have, to accomplish your goals.

We’ll cover the nuts and bolts of how to use the positional authority of the people around you to be more effective!

This is a topic I had to figure out the hard way.
June 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'd like to try and teach you how to have a sixth sense about the long-term. It's a skill I had to build myself, and I tried to develop a step by step way to think about problems you're hearing about, so you can evaluate their long term impact.

www.rubick.com/long-term-se...
March 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Decoding Leadership podcast: I interview Margaret Le on the engineering leader's role in technical direction, and building teams and culture.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/uwmbRbm8e_E
February 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Using task forces to solve complex leadership challenges

Discover when and how to employ task forces effectively, and learn from real-life examples, including a case at New Relic to rapidly deliver a complex feature in six weeks, and another involving a complex merger that spanned every department.
January 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Want to learn about a time where most engineers in a 50 team company had a team self-selection event?

Everyone chose what team to belong to. This was part of a massive set of changes we called Upscale. Brent Miller and I dig into a retrospective on Upscale together in this podcast .
January 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM