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by ath3nd 3y ago
I wonder why...
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> Again, we are talking about tapping someone on the shoulder _once_, and not doing it again if you explain you don't like it. I don't think I should be touched in the first place. I have put a clear signal that I am deeply wor
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I think if we constantly interrupt each other, we should very critically ask ourselves if that's the proper way forward. Often people physically being there is used as a "crutch" or a "band aid" to bad onboarding pr
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> WE ALL HAVE THESE KIND OF PEOPLE IN OUR LIFE, you are not special enough that the human condition should not apply to you. And I (and most other people in this thread) am fed up with them and trying to actively remove them from my life
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Nothing more therapeutic than the sight of your worker bees, stuffed together in the noisy hive, making you dough.
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I believe we should examine why Bob needs to distract Alice on a regular basis, and attack that problem with the might and fury of 1911 raging bulls and 420 mosquitoes. > What confuse me is that some people here just answer: obviously Al
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Bingo!
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Who would win: - literally 100s of publications showing how disruptive and destructive to focus it is to be working in an open office work and how much distractions it brings: https://theconversation.com/returning-to-the-wor
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> 'Gee, when these cars are putting their blinking lights on and it is distracting me, they should all quickly park before I arrive'. No! Because the accepted thing is to use your turn signal, as it's acceptable to do some
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> if the person who has the knowledge FAILED to document it properly and give it to the person who needs it. Then the person who has the knowledge is the one who deserve to have their flow disrupted instead of the person who notice they
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> That's my point: people need to communicate A LOT, ask questions, interact. Bad developers are the ones who quickly create a picture in their head and then run with it Hard agree! I do, however, believe there is lots of merit in e
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I advocate for another culture, as I've seen everybody beihg happy with it. I advocate for a culture where onboardings are mostly self service and most documentation is up to date, frequently available, and easy to access. A culture wh
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by ath3nd 3y ago
If one requires interrupting 6 other people to maintain flow, it's probably a good idea to start phrasing (hyperbole intentional) it like: 'To keep my own flow, I need to destroy the flow of all my colleagues' And not: '
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> Let me guess: that 1 person will of course not be you, right? Because if it is you, I bet you will complain even more. I don't mind it being me, as a matter of fact, it's often me, as I am in a more senior position and have a
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> "we should just force people to go back to the office, just to teach those toddlers to behave like adults". (not always, it's just a knee-jerk reaction "oh come on, stop behaving like babies") Sorry for the adv
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> So what you are asking is that OP destroy their own "deep work" a lot just that you don't get a mild distraction in yours. Yes! I believe the OP should write down all their questions in a structured format, and then sche
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by ath3nd 3y ago
To be fair, I was a bit overly harsh with the OP, and it's purely due to reactionary reasons, as I've been far too often on the receiving end of a barrage of questions from multiple sides, while trying to meet deadlines. And I don
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Fair take. I am not trying to be condescending here, but it's hard to view this behavior as anything but overly disruptive. https://www.businessdit.com/distraction-work-statistics/ Instead of "just a quick qu
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by ath3nd 3y ago
People like you are the reason I personally don't want to be in an office. > asking quick questions and getting an instant answer. vs chat where I may not get an answer for hours. Basically like having a toddler around. Sorry for th
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> by that logic, elon's stock prices and tesla sales are an even more direct form of check for his power That's quite a stretch of the imagination. Elon can make X go up in stock price by firing half the team, or by outsourcing
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Ah yes, comparing a well funded company to two enthusiastic nerds coding in their free time, that's a fair take. You are comparing paid labor to unpaid labor, not a company with PMs vs a company without PMs. There is no panacea to hiri
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Yes, because EU leaders of state are elected democratically.
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Ah, yes, avoid meetings with experts so you have to wait until a non expert who talked to the experts tells you what to build! Pesky, asocial developers, avoiding talk at any cost! It's a well established fact developers love building
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Yes! But imagine if the developers themselves could break down the external requirements into engineering needs! Or are developers grug brains that need a bigger, superior brain to simplify scary real world into simple, safe engineering nee
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I am very much for any SWE or Eng. Mgr taking responsibility and spending as much of their time as they see fit on anything they see fit to build a great product. Not only that, but I will encourage them to continue doing so and give them a
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by ath3nd 3y ago
You know what also raises inflation and interest rates? Price gouging. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1736461510627467533
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> I don't understand, how do you handle prioritization decisions: if you have a 100+ customers that all want something, how do you create understanding of all needs, how do you distill that to an integrated roadmap, and how do you a
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> and the work that keeps the lights on is often not work that even invested software developers want to prioritize. What kind of work is that? And why are the developers willingly not wanting to prioritize it, if the alternative of not
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I might verging on socialism here, but I think the best way to motivate employees is ownership of the company and direct profit sharing. Unfortunately, only the first part is practiced in my organization (company shares), but I am actively
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> Management worshipping at the throne of agile become really enthralled with these guys and can derail an org for years. In theory a PMs stakeholders are the users, but in practice it is buffing the egos of the senior management that hi

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