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Technical direction & strategy
Walk through each part of "Technical direction & strategy", then explain what each one does.
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This is where the player-coach gets tested. You're not graded as a process manager here; you're graded as someone who can still make a defensible architecture call on auth, webhooks or the agent backend and align a flat team behind it without pulling rank.
Come with one major architecture call you owned, told as a tradeoff rather than a triumph. The interesting part is what you gave up and why, because that's where senior judgment shows.
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Where to Spend Judgment First
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
diagram: quadrant
A defensible position weighs ongoing cost against reliability payoff - not licensing.