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omg—a good tutorial for a thankless position: 36 steps to success as technical lead.

The "tech lead" role can be treacherous at times. While the name implies "leadership," most of the times it doesn't come with implied authority like a manager role for example. It often happens that this role is in a no-man's-land where it brings a lot of responsibility but not enough formal authority. In order to successfully help a project from this position one has to navigate through narrow and convoluted straits.

Please, god, never let me be technical lead again!