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I was in a meeting one day, explaining some tech decisions I had made. At one point, my manager interrupted me, looking pale and completely out of place. He ask
by vrnvu 3y ago
I was in a meeting one day, explaining some tech decisions I had made. At one point, my manager interrupted me, looking pale and completely out of place. He asked, "I don't get this approach. Can you share with me the tech blog where you read about this?"
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I couldn't help but think: would a random blog post from the internet have more respect and authority than my own decisions and explanations?
- antod 3y agoBeing as generous as possible and without other context, I would interpret that as a request for some background info you trust that they could use to catch up on those concepts in their own time without derailing the meeting by getting you to explain it. Especially if most others present probably already understand it. Or at least that is how I would've tried to convey it if I was your manager.
- Noumenon72 3y agoIt would to me. When you are doing something no one has written about, it makes me think "We must be doing something impossible or we haven't identified the true problem to solve. It's unlikely we have a problem no one else has ever had." I've spent so much of my career gluing frameworks together that writing my own code feels like a code smell. Whenever my coworkers have written something new I spend 80% of my time fighting it and wishing it was a pattern or library.