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That's a brilliant series of articles. Everyone should read it.
by dunk010 7y ago
That's a brilliant series of articles. Everyone should read it.
- bitL 7y agoIt's totally depressing/demotivating.
- hef19898 7y agoAnd, unfortunately, also totally true...
- josephg 7y agoIt’s not true like physics is true. It’s one lens through which to analyse office dynamics. It’s like looking through one window into a cluttered room. Through that window you might see aspects of the room that you couldn’t see through other windows. And for that reason it feels insightful. But it’s not the only window, and there is a lot more in the room than what you can see from this perspective.
- filoleg 7y agoDepends on how you look at it. For me it felt more insightful than demotivating, because making sense of things like that feels comforting. Also, keep in mind that all models of behavior like that are just close approximations and not hard rules.
- hinkley 7y agoI've reached a point in my career where I know how I want a project to go, and the only hope I have to make it go that way is to take a management position. But then I don't get to enjoy the project, because I'm not participating in creating it. I'm the host of the party, or I'm a reveler, but I can't be both. The handful of former bosses who foster the sorts of things I look for are no longer project managers. I now joke about winning the lottery so I have enough money to do one of my hobbies for a living, or write software for one. What I know about running a software project has come at the expense of knowing how to sell a software project.
- mekane8 7y agoDang, I can relate to this 100%. I had to check the username to see if I actually wrote this myself :-p
- bena 7y agoOne thing that hit me is related to something I often say in jest: I perform for an audience of one, myself. Basically, if I think something would be funny to me, I do it. Then to see him describe it as "sociopath humor" was a little jarring.