{"id":1947,"date":"2026-05-02T01:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/02\/i-fired-my-best-engineer-he-was-toxic-to-the-team-revenue-went-up-40-in-3-months-te\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:09:12","slug":"i-fired-my-best-engineer-he-was-toxic-to-the-team-revenue-went-up-40-in-3-months-te","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/02\/i-fired-my-best-engineer-he-was-toxic-to-the-team-revenue-went-up-40-in-3-months-te\/","title":{"rendered":"I fired my best engineer. He was toxic to the team. Revenue went up 40% in 3 months. Te&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fired my best engineer. He was toxic to the team. Revenue went up 40% in 3 months. Team productivity doubled. Morale skyrocketed. Sometimes the hardest decisions unlock the biggest wins.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2050393841463939094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fired my best engineer. He was toxic to the team. Revenue went up 40% in 3 months. Team productivity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}