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Marcelo Calbucci

Accessibility Thinking

Accessibility in tech has, for as long as I can remember, been associated with disability inclusion. For most people, the word accessible…

10 min readMar 6, 2023

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Accessibility Thinking

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Marcelo Calbucci

I’m Joining Amazon to Improve the Employee Experience

I'm joining Amazon to lead the global employee benefits experience.

8 min readMay 23, 2022

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I’m Joining Amazon to Improve the Employee Experience

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Marcelo Calbucci

Collaboration vs. Coordination: Why aren’t you achieving as much as you could?

The word collaboration gives the warm and fuzzies to people. If you see it in a job description, you are more likely to apply. When you…

13 min readMay 16, 2022

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Collaboration vs. Coordination: Why aren’t you achieving as much as you could?

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Marcelo Calbucci

The 5 stages of CTO & the CTO Career Chasm

Mapping the Blitzscalling startup stages to the profiles of the CTO they need.

11 min readJan 21, 2021

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The 5 stages of CTO & the CTO Career Chasm

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Marcelo Calbucci

Badass (Presenting) Presentations — 24 ways to avoid messing up while presenting

I had my fair share of bad presentations. I gave terrible presentations. I watched slow-moving train wreck presentations. The vast…

17 min readJan 19, 2021

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Badass (Presenting) Presentations — 24 ways to avoid messing up while presenting

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Marcelo Calbucci

Badass Email — How to conquer your Inbox forever

23 ideas to take back your email sanity

13 min readJan 12, 2021

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Badass Email — How to conquer your Inbox forever

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Marcelo Calbucci

Badass Meetings — 23 tips on how to tackle the “too many meetings” problem

Preamble 1: If you want to better retain* the information below and learn a few new tricks, I also put together a non-boring 30-day…

12 min readJan 5, 2021

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Badass Meetings — 23 tips on how to tackle the “too many meetings” problem

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Marcelo Calbucci

Budget your software initiatives, don’t estimate them

Estimation-driven software planning is an old & flawed system for making great products. Budget-driven planning provides many improvements.

9 min readDec 14, 2020

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Budget your software initiatives, don’t estimate them

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Marcelo Calbucci

17 reasons why becoming an engineering manager is not what you thought it will be

I often find myself giving career advice to software engineers who want to become a manager. I also mentor and coach many managers who’ve…

7 min readJul 16, 2020

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17 reasons why becoming an engineering manager is not what you thought it will be

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Interviewing: Ask them to show, not tell!

Picture this. You are taking a Calculus test in High School. Instead of a written assessment, it’s a different type of evaluation. It’s an…

7 min readJun 8, 2020

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I've been an entrepreneur and maker since 12-years old. Spent the first third of my career in Big Tech, and the last 16 years founding & CTOing startups.
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