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> Sometimes, I wish I have more time coding to accelerate growth. First: You may be at odds with what your employees are doing. Whenever I catch the CTO/co-fou
by Jugurtha 9y ago
> Sometimes, I wish I have more time coding to accelerate growth.
First: You may be at odds with what your employees are doing. Whenever I catch the CTO/co-founder doing something I'm able to do, I'll gently push/nudge him off of it and do it or take a mental note to learn to do it. I try to get as much off of his plate as I can (bug fixes, features, staying on the lookout for tooling, best practices, thinking about new uses for our products, refactoring and profiling/documenting/testing the code, trying other ways to do things, polishing ux/ui, tweaking the servers, helping with hiring and marketing, learning new tings, thinking about strategy and how to implement it, mentoring junior members, prototyping and proposing things) do so he could do the things he's really good at and squeeze the most value out of his work day.
Second: Is your growth really driven by the number of lines of code and what's the impact on growth of the code you write and is it the best use of your time? My point is that if you're coding, I think it's good to ask if you're spending time on code other members can't really write, and then eventually think about hiring someone who can write it better than you so you could do all the other stuff a CEO does.