Director of Cloud at Namecheap | 🤓 Author of The Hybrid Hacker, a newsletter about Engineering Management, Leadership, Career Growth and Productivity

I've spent 25+ years diving deep into technology, building businesses, and leading high-performing teams of Engineers. I try to condense all this experience in my newsletter and share it with my 30,000+ subscribers.

My main goal is to help other Engineers and Leaders grow and avoid mistakes I made in my career, through sharing:

🔧 Practical advice on how to grow from Engineer to Engineering Manager or Leader
📚 Personal stories about how I grew from Individual Contributor to Director
🎨 Easily understandable articles enriched with visuals to simplify complex concepts

If all of this makes sense to you, join 20k+ subscribers at: https://hybridhacker.email

Nicola Ballotta

writing about Culture in Tech | Mentor | CTO | Dad 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Tech leaders don’t burn out because of code. They burn out because of chaos, politics, and constant pressure.

I’m Adrian, a former CTO and founder. Today I’m building pagebar, a native home for coaches and creators who want one place to run their business, content, clients, and operations with clarity.

My work sits at the intersection of coaching, leadership, and execution. I use Stoic principles, what’s in your control, what’s not, how you respond, then apply them to modern reality, delivery pressure, client work, content cadence, AI, and the daily noise that kills consistency.

What I help with, through content and through pagebar:
	•	Clarity, focus, boundaries, emotional regulation
	•	Systems for consistent creation, offers, and delivery
	•	Calm leadership, whether you lead clients, teams, or yourself

I share this through Worth Following, The Stoic Leader, and build-in-public notes around pagebar.

If you’re a coach or creator building something real, follow along. If you want to evaluate pagebar for your business, message me “PAGEBAR” and I’ll send the fastest path to see if it fits.

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