Those 4Ds are so abstract and tautological to the point of being useless. As a practicing line EM I spent most of my time hiring, project management, people man

Those 4Ds are so abstract and tautological to the point of being useless. As a practicing line EM I spent most of my time hiring, project management, people management, networking, resolving conflicts, mentorship, to name a few things of the top of my head. But all of this was built on a solid foundation of the system my team owned. And that was only possible if I understood things at the code level how various product flows worked. And I personally can’t understand code unless I fiddled around with it.