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This is an extremely important piece of advice. To drive change in a large org, you will need support, which will either come from management, or people on the
by Agingcoder 2y ago
This is an extremely important piece of advice. To drive change in a large org, you will need support, which will either come from management, or people on the ground - this is purely people skills. Just writing amazing code and shipping it isn’t enough.
- Imustaskforhelp 2y agohmm surprising because I had mentioned how to win friends and influence people book by dale carnegie in some other comment on this post and one of the most sticky / remembered lines of this book is that even in a highly technical post , much of the success (approx 70% IIRC) can be because of having people skills. People skills matter , But I suppose in large organisations. I don't think people skills matter "that much" in open source (other than documentation and hey not messing up like attomatic and being a little bit nicer in general) Hell we should all try to be a little nicer in general , not just in open source.
- Agingcoder 2y agoWell, I’m not sure that the Linux kernel would have been that successful without Linus’ people skills - granted some it is slightly subpar, but his ability to organize a large number of people and have them follow his lead ( that’s the tricky bit ) is actually quite striking. Now, you might say that the Linux kernel is a large project, and you’d be right