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Ryan Varley, PhD

@ryanvarley.bsky.social

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Helping you build exceptional Product, Data and Engineering teams • CTO • Engineering Fellow

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Ryan Varley, PhD @ryanvarley.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If you can get comfortable with being bad at things in public, you will stop holding yourself back and supercharge your growth.

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Ryan Varley, PhD @ryanvarley.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

One of the most frustrating things I see are from people who want to progress but don't take any of the opportunities around them. They think that at a certain point someone will just tell them they are at the next level.

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Ryan Varley, PhD @ryanvarley.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Ask your team: “What did a former manager do that you valued, that I haven't adopted yet?” and learn from leaders you've never met

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Ryan Varley, PhD @ryanvarley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Ask people about where they are going, not just where they are now. You are hiring someone who is growing, and you want to see that their growth plans will work with yours. #hiring

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Ryan Varley, PhD @ryanvarley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"If we made you an offer, for what reasons would you turn it down?" My interview questions are now live (for free) in the Data Leaders Handbook! handbook.dataleadership.ai/interview-qu... What are your favourite interview questions? Let me know.

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Interview Questions | Data Leaders Handbook

Great questions to ask candidates in interviews.

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Ryan Varley, PhD @ryanvarley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

❌ Have you got any feedback for me? ✅ Is there anything I do, or my process, that makes a part of your job harder than it otherwise would be? Rephrasing your feedback questions can get you way better insights. Learn more in my latest post blog.dataleadership.ai/p/great-one-...

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Improve feedback in your 1:1s with these questions

Asking better questions will get you better answers. Here's how.

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Ryan Varley, PhD @ryanvarley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

✅ What did a former manager do that you valued, which I haven't adopted yet? ✅ Who is doing a great job on the team? What have they done? Today I'm sharing my list of 1:1 questions that I’ve written and collected over the years 🤯. See more here handbook.dataleadership.ai/1-1-questions/

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1:1 Meeting Questions | Data Leaders Handbook

Great questions to elevate your 1:1 meetings and build trust.

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Ryan Varley, PhD @ryanvarley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Most of my Google searches end in "Reddit". How did we get here?

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