Servant leadership sounds soft until you try it in AI engineering. Then it becomes the hardest job. People misunderstand servant leadership as being nice or avoiding tough decisions. Wrong. It means removing obstacles ruthlessly, making unpopular calls when needed, and taking hits so your team can focus on building. 💪 In deep-tech environments, this looks different than typical management. It means diving into architectural debates when teams are stuck. It means fighting for

The best teams I've built were loosely controlled and tightly aligned. Micromanagement kills AI teams. The work is too complex, too ambiguous, too fast-moving. If you're telling senior engineers exactly what to build, you're wasting their judgment and your time. 🚫 But loose control without clarity is chaos. People need to deeply understand the problem, the constraints, and the success criteria. Then they need freedom to figure out the "how." I fostered a growth-focused cultu