Today, we are cutting straight through the corporate jargon to tackle one of the toughest transitions in anyone’s career: shifting from doing the work to leading the people who do it.

My guest today is the author of Minimum Viable Manager. Matt brings an incredible frontline perspective shaped by two decades of high-stakes leadership—from flying in the U.S. Air Force to designing leadership training at SpaceX, and advising some of today’s fastest-growing tech organizations. His book skips the performative “executive presence” playbook and zeroes in on the three fundamental skills every new technical leader must master: building real trust, setting unambiguous expectations, and delivering feedback that actually sticks.

We’ll dissect why so many brilliant engineers and individual contributors stumble when stepping into leadership… how high-stress environments forge resilient teams, and how these core human foundations hold up in an era increasingly disrupted by artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Here we go.

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