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    "As the person leading the meeting, your job is to provoke and channel the talents and expertise of everyone in the discussion. This rarely makes you look smart."
This reminds me of the Steve Jobs quote:

    "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."


+1, I actually started toying with blogging about dev management because of the excellent HN discussion on that article:

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=23872625

and this equally excellent discussion:

Developers can't fix bad management (2020)

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=27458785


LOL, why is my article flagged? I mean, I sort of love the notoriety, but still, why?


Wait what? Really? Why?


no that's not true. someone who said they were working for apple contradicted that fact in the other thread.

i personally find the claims weird and have never seen it anywhere. my experience is that some employees choose to use company devices as personal devices. or personal accounts as company accounts, etc.

again, the way things are today, i don't expect many apple employees to come forward and tell us the way things are.


This.


>And of course the author knows.

Author here, I don't actually know, I'm still learning.

But I know that by observation most of my peers are truly ignorant and just winging it.

Fixing that would make life better for everyone.


>Author here, I don't actually know

Why are you writing authoritatively about something you know you don´t actually know then?


Because traditional authoritative sources that I would look to for guidance are completely out of date. From where I sit it looks to me like they are more focused on milking endowments than discovering what is happening in the real world.


My take away was that the author doesn't necessarily claim to have all the answers here. It's more of a list of general guidance that is reverse engineered from the type of behavior the she observed was definitely unsuccessful.


That was my risky click for the day!


Isn't it true that Rust is meant to solve problems in spaces where those languages really can't play? I'll admit to plenty of ignorance about all three of those languages, so I'm genuinely curious what you think.


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