I’ve gone back and forth on whether managers should code and my opinion is: don’t stop coding. Each week that passes where you don’t share the joy, despair, and discovery of software development is a week when you slowly forget what it means to be a software developer. Over time it means you’ll have a harder time talking to engineers because you’ll forget how they think and how they become bored.
Bored People Quit - makes my head hurt to think on it too long.
The simple assumption, is 40-60% of the time somebody says “let’s implement a rules engine to solve these unknown problems” really translates to “we really don’t know much about this domain so let’s implement something arbitrary as a stop gap”.
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I think having Jason spend less time being an administrator and more time writing is a huge win for all of us.
That’s the kind of sentiment my type is always angling for: content creation, not the administration thereof. The so called “Maker” work philosophy applied to communication.
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In a template for some 451 documents. It’s 2014, and this is pretty much where all the white-collar workers are. That whole “plain text and markdown” rebellion you see among tech-separatists is a weird reaction, but almost an isolationist response to the weirdness of Word.
Anything that can be learned by a normal American adult on a trip to a foreign country (of less than one year’s duration) can be learned more quickly, cheaply, and easily by visiting the San Diego Public Library.
Simon’s Travel Theorem, As read in the preface to The Halo Effect. A bit more here too, including the vital “I’m not trying to be a dick” defense.
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