rishirishi

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by rishirishi 8y ago
For the sake of conversation, let's loosely define a manager as someone who is responsible for enabling teams to succeed and assessing performance of their directs. Could you pay that manager equal or less than their direct individual
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by rishirishi 8y ago
> First, this is not strictly true; many senior ICs get paid more than managers, and the comparison between manager-track job levels and IC-track job levels varies at different companies. Are those ICs getting paid more than their immedi
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by rishirishi 8y ago
Your machiavellian take holds water, in my opinion. If managers were paid less than (or just as much as) their directs, what would change?
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by rishirishi 8y ago
Good perspective, pbiggar. Question for clarification: Do those ICs making "a lot" report to managers that make more, less or equal (generally speaking of course)?
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Ask HN: Why do managers get paid more than individual contributors?
74 points by rishirishi 8y ago|78 comments
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by rishirishi 9y ago
I too am hands off with respect to managing. I am of the opinion that if you need to actively manage your directs, then you have not hired well. I am a point of escalation when there are incidents or when mediation is required; otherwise I
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by rishirishi 9y ago
Yeah, I was surprised how long it took me to realize the error in my breathing. In hindsight, my athletic life before 21 could have benefited greatly from breathing "right".
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by rishirishi 9y ago
Breathing through your diaphragm is desirable all the time and not only during a conscious exercise. Many years ago, I would breathe through my chest which made for shallow breathing. Look at how babies breathe; through their diaphragm&#x2F
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by rishirishi 9y ago
I found this opinion piece insightful: https://medium.com/@ummerr/youre-working-in-the-wrong-place-... I believe a solution could be the combination of: a) Open-office space with pods of desks that groups can flock to
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by rishirishi 9y ago
I have been through waterfall, agile, scrum, "agile", "scrum", kanban, to-do lists. Yet, I cannot point to a single style of project management as a silver bullet. However, I have come to realize the following conditions
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by rishirishi 9y ago
You are right in that meetings are prone to being wasteful and unarchived. A few considerations that I find necessary for meetings: - Schedule in advance (if possible) - Set an agenda and provide reading material (if available) such that at
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by rishirishi 9y ago
Positioned as a tool for collaboration and productivity, how can Slack legitimately be that when it is designed for online, synchronous communication? Is it really collaboration when members in a channel do not have a chance to prepare or s
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by rishirishi 9y ago
Depending on the type of work, setting (office, remote) and circumstances, tools like Slack become necessary. And when collectively used well with agreements, it becomes valuable. The tool is not the cause, I agree. Getting off Slack was an
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by rishirishi 9y ago
> ... he's preparing to be left out of a lot of decisions ... I struggle to see how substantive decisions can be made legitimately through group chat. How do you facilitate decision making such that it allows people to prepare and p
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by rishirishi 9y ago
> How can days be purpose driven if you don't sync your own work with your colleague's work any more? Work does get synced. It gets discussed at our desks, usually in the mornings. If the work presents blockers requiring a leng
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Slack is not for me(medium.com)
103 points by rishirishi 9y ago|111 comments