Bookmarks
Useful external reading, communities, and services. These links are references, not CTO Framework guides.
Leadership
Career & purpose / Japanese
- Ikigai — Background on the Japanese concept of a reason for being and its use in discussions of purpose.
Processes / Japanese
- Kaizen — Continuous, Incremental Improvement.
Curated lists
- Awesome CTO — A comprehensive, community-maintained collection of CTO resources, guides, and tools.
- Awesome CTO Resources — A collection of articles, books, and resources for technology leaders.
- Awesome CTO by Sören Martius — Another community-maintained collection of CTO-related resources.
Communities
- Alphalist — A network and community for CTOs and technology leaders to share knowledge and experience.
- Manager README — A directory and resource-sharing platform for engineering managers and leaders.
Learning & coaching
- Tech Leadership Launchpad — Paid training and resources for moving into and succeeding in technical leadership.
- CTO Academy — Paid management training, mentoring, and coaching for technology leaders.
- CTO Craft — Paid mentoring and coaching community for engineering leaders.
- CTO Coach Directory — A curated directory of professional coaches specialising in CTO and engineering-executive support.
Technology
Diagramming & architecture
- Draw.io Desktop — Desktop application for creating architecture, process, and workflow diagrams.
- Azure Architecture Icons — Official SVG icons and templates for Azure architecture diagrams.
Productivity
Note-taking & knowledge management
- Obsidian — A local-first Markdown editor and personal knowledge base with graph views and a broad plugin ecosystem.
- Personal Knowledge Management — Background on the practices and systems used to capture, organise, and retrieve personal knowledge.