Radical Candor

By Kim Scott

Kim Scott introduces a simple but powerful framework for being a great boss: care personally while challenging directly. Drawing from her experience at Google and Apple, she shows how the intersection of these two principles — Radical Candor — creates the kind of feedback culture where people do their best work. She also explores the pitfalls of obnoxious aggression, ruinous empathy, and manipulative insincerity, giving you a clear vocabulary for recognizing and correcting these patterns.

Whether you're a tech lead giving code reviews, a manager running one-on-ones, or an individual contributor learning to give better feedback, this book provides actionable guidance for building trust and driving results through honest communication. Join us as we discuss how to bring candor into our engineering teams.