sstradling

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by sstradling 12y ago
This brings up the other problem I have with adding ducks (yes, I'm anti-duck). Humans tend to fixate on the obvious - the more obvious problems you have, the more we'll fixate on them. That's great if people are just meddlin
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by sstradling 12y ago
Agreed (although there are few things funnier than a well-placed duck)
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by sstradling 12y ago
Even if you specifically aren't the idiot (though I often am), never spend your time working around the idiot. Any time you work around an idiot, you've done more work and the idiot will still be there...
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by sstradling 12y ago
I'm reminded of a blog post by an old govvie that hated this approach. His argument was that every time we work around a problem in our process, whether it was a bad system or an incompetent co-worker or manager, we became the problem.
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by sstradling 12y ago
Not at all :-) What helps me is having enough variety in what needs to be done - coding, marketing, management, planning - that there's always something I'm not totally burned out on.
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by sstradling 12y ago
Agreed. Particularly "don't break the web". Points and kudos for a clean solution to complicated GET queries.
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by sstradling 12y ago
(As a bonus, ask your departing teammate to take the opportunity to be away from work to NOT think about their current job. Get them to daydream about what they would love for their next step to be.)
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by sstradling 12y ago
I think this is a good (but hard) opportunity for building the rest of your team. You're finding a real vulnerability in your team's structure, and being proactive like you are is a good way of fixing it. First, figure out exactly
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by sstradling 12y ago
> I really, really enjoy my sleep :). This is certainly very practical advice, but it requires that I'm disciplined enough to go to sleep earlier the preceding night. That's difficult but certainly possible. Then work late and
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Growing co-founders?
1 points by sstradling 12y ago|0 comments