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by ludicity 2y ago
Author here. To the best of my knowledge, it is real. Sadly.
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by ludicity 2y ago
I'm the author. You are exactly correct. Everything was so heavily interwoven that it was impossible to tell what would happen downstream without making an edit and then tracking the changes through dozens of steps through the architec
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Get Me Out of Data Hell(ludic.mataroa.blog)
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We Don't Make Software(tigerpajamas.com)
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by ludicity 2y ago
I know someone that got bullied for taking leave to care for their special needs kids, and the positivity people came pouring out of the woodwork to accuse her of being confrontational when she was understandably upset. Not that the comment
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by ludicity 2y ago
Author here. I spent Thursday evening with my vocal teacher, where we mostly giggled because I couldn't hit the F required to start Billy Joel's "Movin' Out". So yes, it was most decidedly humorous hyperbole, and it
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by ludicity 2y ago
Author here. Someone sent me this comment this morning (along with a note saying: "I am not afraid of you") and it absolutely sent me. Probably because he knows I am of exactly average height and exactly average build, and I quit
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Please don't mention AI again(ludic.mataroa.blog)
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Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing(ludic.mataroa.blog)
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by ludicity 3y ago
And also the bit where I say that's a reductive framing when you really think about it! We are all frogs and we are all scorpions (but I will concede that some of us are more scorpion than others when we're in the crab bucket - wo
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by ludicity 3y ago
This guy seems like a real energy vampire.
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by ludicity 3y ago
I moved here, but I love this about Australia. There's a lot of boot-licking in corporate settings, but one of my first experiences here was someone holding the door open on a train for fun, preventing us from leaving the station. Back
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by ludicity 3y ago
I can't tell if that would make me respect them more or less.
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by ludicity 3y ago
Hah, this is fair. I read a lot and corporate dysfunction really bothered me for a long time, so I studied and got some mentorship on the topic. It helps that Turn The Ship Around is actually a genuinely interesting read - my brain got a lo
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by ludicity 3y ago
I recorded the first episode of a podcast to go with the blog today. It was literally while you were typing this. I made a joke (that is almost not a joke) about my N-2 rule. You can say all N managers in any organization are bad apart fro
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by ludicity 3y ago
For what it's worth, as I can see there have been some flak from the commenters here, I think we're probably on the same page. There are people who I do identify as leaders, and I probably wouldn't object to them calling th
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by ludicity 3y ago
Just wanted to say that this was one of the most thought-provoking and sensible exchanges on the post. >To the point of your article, I tend to believe you have to start as viewing yourself as net negative, and then trying to understand
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by ludicity 3y ago
The original draft of this post ended with: "If I ever become a thought leader, someone has to assassinate me."
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by ludicity 3y ago
I've used a very similar one but I can't remember which post it was in. The lightning wasn't Atlassian-branded, which I was very proud of this time, haha.
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by ludicity 3y ago
Hah, I've done this with people before! Drop me an email. I can tell from your name that we'd vibe.
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by ludicity 3y ago
Most companies suck, but I started a small one with some friends and my blog has introduced me to the small circle of competent people in my city - fret not for me! And I spend a lot of time getting engineers out of toxic organizations. I&#
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by ludicity 3y ago
Extremely fair. #2 is a tricky one. On one hand, I know a few executives who genuinely have some demonstrable area of expertise that isn't related to technology. On the other hand, an executive whose area of expertise always seems to
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by ludicity 3y ago
I really appreciate that! It certainly helps with a bit of the flak I catch from people with a different point-of-view when something hits Hackernews. And it's great to have team members that you can share this sort of thing with, thou
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by ludicity 3y ago
I suspect they actually meant Terry Pratchett, but David Whyte is certainly a contender. I read The Three Marriages expecting it to be awful because of the title, but came away with an unquenchable thirst for all his material. (And I read
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by ludicity 3y ago
I adore this, though I have to re-organize my brain a bit to parse it after defining management and leadership so differently. Thank you for the lovely recommendation, and I'll be sure to give the whole thing a read/listen.
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by ludicity 3y ago
Absolutely, I'm keeping an eye out. Unfortunately, due to path dependence in jobs, it takes a while to find a better place. Plus this company culture is very typical in Australia, so you're looking at a small percentage of the m
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by ludicity 3y ago
Ah, not really. I worried about this quite a bit at first, but there are quite a few mitigating factors. The first is that I have an audience of a few thousand people at this point, and that's enough of a network that I will probably f
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by ludicity 3y ago
I agree. I should probably clarify that I only developed this urge after getting sick of seeing people get treated poorly. But I've avoided it thus far despite a few offers because almost every manager who serves as what I've hear
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I get a lot of reader correspondence from the U.S, and the prevalence of this seems to be the same in places with at-will employment, with an added dose of terror keeping anyone from admitting they hate it.
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It must be being struck by the "brilliant" idea, right? The first one is too weird for me to contemplate. In either case, I don't judge people too much for this because I think it signals compliance with corporate norms. My

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