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- 109Jan 8, 20223 minleadership
Definition of Technology Leadership
We engineers often boast about leadership without a clear definition of what we are saying. Here are the definitions to distill the clarity from those chaotic ramblings of the mass.
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Minimal UI Design Tutorial Part 2
How to design an elegant UI?
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Minimal UI Design Tutorial Part 3
How to design an elegant UI?
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Nothing Matters Detector
These are all good things, but they have nothing to do with me.
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UI Design Minimalist Tutorial Part 1
How to design an elegant UI?
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What is the Innovator's Dilemma?
Large companies have more resources than small companies, so why can small companies sometimes defeat large ones? Large companies seem to win every battle, but why do they quickly lose the entire war?
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Technology Leadership Radar
How to evaluate the performance of a technology leader? Each company or individual has its own answer with engineering rubrics. And those rubrics usually focus on a specific role - IC (Software Engineer, Product Manager, Designer) or Engineering Manager. Is there a grand unified framework to evaluate the potential business impact that a technology leader could make?
Read more → - 116May 17, 20213 minfintech
DC/EP and Central Bank Digital Currency
DC/EP stands for Digital Currency Electronic Payment, a central bank digital currency. What problems does it aim to solve? What is its framework? How will it be promoted? What are the main technological means? To what extent does it protect privacy? What issues does blockchain face in this context? Why is cross-border payment not a priority?
Read more → - 117May 15, 20211 minproduct management
Michael Porter's Five Forces Analysis Model
What are the main considerations for analyzing a company's competitive environment? New players, old players, what I buy, who buys from me, and other dimensions that can replace me. What is the essence of competitiveness? Irreplaceability, which is the uniqueness in high demand.
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Technology Leadership Radar
Traditional engineering rubrics focus on specific areas, such as IC (software engineers, product managers, designers) or managers. Can we propose a unified framework to measure the business impact of technical workers?
Read more → - 119Mar 12, 20218 minsystem design
Authentication and Authorization in Microservices
design an auth solution that starts simple but could scale with the business, consider both security and user experiences, and talk about the future trends in this area
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BOZ Personal Growth Loops
Architects model the world in system thinking to optimize everything. As an engineer and businessman, I am continually working on the orchestration of work and life and maintain a high personal growth rate. Lessons learned are generalized to the BOZ growth loops.
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About Tian Pan
I'm Tian Pan, an engineer-founder focused on agentic engineering — building autonomous AI systems and scaling engineering teams. I write practical guides on system design, technical leadership, and shipping with AI agents. Previously an early engineer at Uber, Brex, and IoTeX.
