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And quite often the person who causes these circumstantial stresses can be the same person for whom this guide is intended, but I'm not able to find a lot of ac
by uoaei 3y ago
And quite often the person who causes these circumstantial stresses can be the same person for whom this guide is intended, but I'm not able to find a lot of acknowledgement of that fact in the guide.
I had a manager who pretended they could manage our product-consultancy team the same way they managed their previous research-code-monkey team. They had trouble because of their inability to do much besides say "replicate this paper". To them I probably looked like all of these archetypal "difficult engineers" at various times. From my perspective I wasn't getting the pay nor the time and respect from higher-ups to go through the hard slog of managing up, but I was getting paid enough to stick around, so I just ended up burning out super hard.
I guess my point is, sometimes managing others starts with managing yourself. This insight extends far beyond the context of a day job.