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I can tell you’ve never worked with a competent manager. They are required because building the wrong thing is worse than not building anything at all

• feoren 2y ago
  Building the wrong thing is exactly what happens when you listen to management too much. Talk to the client yourself. Learn the subject. Get the textbook. Read the materials. That's how you build the right thing.
• mdaniel 2y ago
  > They are required because building the wrong thing is worse than not building anything at all And yet, "manager" is usually[1] only responsible for ensuring the boards get carried from the truck to the construction site and that two workers don't shoot at each other with nail guns, not "we, collectively, are building the right house." I freely admit that my cynicism is based on working in startups, where who knows what the right thing actually is, but my life experience is that managers for sure do not: they're just having meetings to ensure the workers are executing on the plan that the manager heard in their meeting 1: I am also 1000000% open to the fact that I fall into the camp of not having seen this mythical "competent manager" you started with