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The art of giving a shit
- MarcelOlsz 4y ago
- galacticaactual 4y agoWhatever he was trying to get across about leadership, did not come through in his writing.
- sufficer 4y agoOne of the worst submissions I've seen to HN lol
- quickthrower2 4y agoThere is a lot of good stuff. What am I missing? For example: > We managed to partially flip the organizational culture around through clarity and being consistent in communication which resulted in other engineering teams coming to us for advice, education, and mentoring. It might be cliche, but not enough VP Engineering / leaders do this kind of stuff. They either don't, or try and fail because it is too hard.
- totoglazer 4y agoAgreed - seemed like some interesting stuff, but not well written. Needs a quality editor and a few more drafts.
- samuraixp 4y agoLove the "tour of duty" idea. Also, Chicken Salt for the win!
- rufus_foreman 4y agoChange and courage are the deepest of human emotions.
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y agoIs change more of an action than an emotion?
- mkl95 4y agoThis post would be insightful if it mentioned what his teammembers did after such a crappy experience. Did they go back to academia, or did they go for another industry job?
- solarmist 4y agoI think you’re right. There are problem and actions taken, but no discussion of how those actions paid off other than a couple of pictures showing good will. This had good parts to it, but it feels like the sum of its parts was less than the whole.
- belkarx 4y agoIt's a well-written story but like other comments are noting there's not an explicit message
- sbr464 4y agoAka the tech industry. Although, he isn’t a writer, so, with squinting, I appreciate the feeling/motivation.
- froggertoaster 4y agoIt's hard to take this guy seriously knowing that part of his story is he traveled Australia in a van for months and basically left his kids behind.
- quickthrower2 4y agoIt seems like he is wanting to spend as much time with his kids as possible. https://ghuntley.com/a-new-chapter/ https://ghuntley.com/a-new-chapter/. Doesn’t sound like a dump em on the ex, pay no support and f-off scenario. But it is probably not for us to judge anyway.
- djmips 4y agoUnlike many of the other commenters - I liked this submission - there's no magic - just care about your team. This is one of those times when it's all there in the title.