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by dasil003 3y ago
After 25 years in the full range of IC and management positions, I'm convinced there's no substitute for expertise, maturity and judgement. I could come up with some rules of thumb (eg. ICs need the maximum amount of agency they
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by dasil003 3y ago
I don’t know if you’ve only ever worked for clueless management (a real possibility), but good orgs care about output not butt-in-seat time. In a healthy org you will be promoted because you are delivering value more efficiently, not becau
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by dasil003 3y ago
Interesting that it gives the (bad) subjective advice, but misses the clear cut grammatical error.
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by dasil003 3y ago
I disagree, the analogy is weak. Strip mining is about harvesting naturally occurring resources in the most invasive way. The internet is not a natural resource. It was created by and for humans, from zero to unfathomable scale in thirty
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by dasil003 3y ago
Interestingly, this usage in English is not unheard of, and it tracks. Whereas the opposite “thank you for letting me lend your bike” doesn’t work and in fact implies a different meaning involving an unstated third party.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Yes, like any skill, communication is something you can practice and get better. The key is that it’s very hard if you can’t get out of your own head. And when it comes to communication with executives and other very busy people you really
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by dasil003 3y ago
Sure, that's the conventional wisdom, but it seems sort of out of context here. This guy gambled and won, bootstrapping a €600k MRR business which is still printing money to this day (Shopify killed the growth, not the business). Th
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by dasil003 3y ago
This is a weird take. It’s not practical for everyone to self host and if you don’t do that you’re not really decentralized (eg. Gmail account lockouts). Social media handle ownership is normally pretty stable and reliable because otherwise
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by dasil003 3y ago
Not significant from a situation/narrative perspective, but Roberto Carlos’ impossible goal always comes to mind https://youtu.be/ZnXA0PoEE6Y
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by dasil003 3y ago
I think this is a good reframing of Gall's Law for junior devs. The problem is, it's hard to put in practice if you don't know what the shape of the thing your building should be. That may actually be a non-trivial problem
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by dasil003 3y ago
I've also had the experience of failing FAANG interviews after being very successful at smaller scale. Since then I've made the leap, and I can tell you that experience in the 10-100 developer range is extremely valuable and can
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by dasil003 3y ago
Squats and deadlifts are unequaled in terms of core strength development, and they are also some of the most natural human motions that any toddler naturally picks up as they learn to walk upright. I agree doing them with heavy weights can
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by dasil003 3y ago
It's early days on the product applications, but the fundamental power is being able to find correlations and connections across a huge corpus and output a large variety of rough ideas that can then be selected and polished by humans.
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by dasil003 3y ago
I think it's a boiling frog scenario. AWS's goal is marketshare, not simplicity. Like many professional software products, it started simple by necessity and then grew more complex over time. In AWS's case it ballooned pre
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by dasil003 3y ago
I am definitely not an infra engineer, but I see it as an attempt to fix problems that have accumulated over decades as standards calcified and no single vendor was able to improve due to interoperability issues. Some of these things can’t
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by dasil003 3y ago
Agree with everything you said. I've just been in US tech and finance spheres too long for me to find much insight in the framing anymore.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Sure, but why the impulse to frame it in economic terms? IMO it's far from the most interesting or insightful framing on the value of human relationships.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Yeah, it's humbling enough when you are reviewing some old code and thinking "what idiot wrote this" only to git blame and realize it was you. What's even more jarring when you find some code, surprised the capability&#
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by dasil003 3y ago
I don't care about most blog entries, but then one catches my fancy out of the blue. The serendipity and humanity of it is wonderful and a welcome breath of fresh air from polished mass media. Why should I care that personal blogs ar
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by dasil003 3y ago
What you've really captured is the banality and non-sequitur nature of corporate meetings where major participants are in charge of things well beyond their ken. Dilbert did it first, but you took it to new post-modern heights.
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by dasil003 3y ago
I agree with the author, and I think it mostly comes down to the original article author being young and not really having much perspective on the reliability, stability and backwards-compatibility of HTML/CSS/HTTP and traditional
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by dasil003 3y ago
I'm actually middle management at a largish SV company, but I have also been leadership at smaller startups as well as the developer bootstrapping a 2-person SaaS app to 6-figure revenue, in addition to over a decade as a vanilla web d
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by dasil003 3y ago
It's a master class in obfuscation: "What even is Meta?" "It's... meta" It tickles my dad funny bone, but not sure it will throw anti-trust regulators off the scent.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Sure, but it's always both in large scale human endeavor. We're not talking about virtuosic performance that is more or less the direct result of talent + obsessive practice. That's why I'm equally uninterested in thos
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by dasil003 3y ago
What's your sample size? I mean sure, nepotism happens, this isn't a surprise. But for competent founders, the ability to successfully execute the role at hand is the primary consideration. To be coldly rational about it: wheth
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by dasil003 3y ago
Hiring the right people is competence when it comes to corporate leadership. That's pretty much the only lever they have. Sure they make a few strategic decisions, but for the most part they are just reviewing and signing off on th
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by dasil003 3y ago
Startups scale faster than management skill sets. Being able to manage a team of 10 doesn’t translate to managing an of org of 100, let alone 1000. I’m not saying that’s what’s going on in your case, but it’s a legit reason in some cases:
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by dasil003 3y ago
This is great advice, and I'd generalize it the other way too. Ideally you want both founders to be willing to do whatever the highest value work is regardless of how closely it matches their skills. We often put technical skills on
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by dasil003 3y ago
On a healthy team a good manager will mostly stay out of the way (this could read as "too much time on their hands" if they are actually a bad manager). On the other hand, when there is systemic dysfunction in a team or organizat
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by dasil003 3y ago
Yeah this mirrors my thoughts as well. Individual training for endurance, speed, accuracy, power all have analogues in for intellectual work. So if you're optimizing for your own individual performance then this analogy makes a lot o

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