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Writing code is a different job from management. Of course you will be very successful if you have good management skills and you combine them with strong techn
by rmk 4y ago
Writing code is a different job from management. Of course you will be very successful if you have good management skills and you combine them with strong technical acumen. But writing code while being a manager is a recipe for failure.
What you saw at Fastmail is pretty much standard in the industry: above average intelligence in the worker ranks but way below average ability and intelligence in the management ranks.
- calvinmorrison 4y ago> What you saw at Fastmail is pretty much standard in the industry: above average intelligence in the worker ranks but way below average ability and intelligence in the management ranks. No, the opposite. Most of the C level is extremely smart. Smarter than when I worked at a research lab with all PhD's and Professors. All are or have been leads on successful open source projects, contribute to IETF, one guy ran the Perl project for years, and so forth. Very smart crew. One of the best things about working there was being around people smarter than me