🧑‍💻 The Tech Lead Playbook: From Best IC Multiplier 🚀

A deep, opinionated, practical guide for the engineer who has just been handed (or is about to be handed) a team. The tactics, mental models, decision frameworks, and anti-patterns that take you from "great individual contributor" to "the person who makes the team 3x effective." Grounded in 2026 reality - small teams, AI-leveraged engineers, async distributed work, and a hiring market that demands you ship. If you read only one section first, read §2 Mindset, §5 Technical Direction, and §9 The Operating Cadence. Everything else is the implementation of those three.