this @bcantrill talk is brilliant (a sentence said frequently) except this one is on hiring engineers, the best engineers are motivated by "the why, the soul, you need to very clearly communicate the mission" (the team & hard technical problems as well)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KeYzjILqDo …
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I feel this part about how if your experience is that every single person who becomes a VP becomes a jackass, how do you not become the thing you hate so much when you have no example of someone doing it well. "I was raised by wolves."
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A Demotivator is annual reviews, feedback is good, annual reviews lead to having to be dinged on something, so what do you get dinged on.. YOUR PERSONALITY. OH MY GOD THIS.
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Hierarchical titles lead to the N+1 shithead problem, laughing my ass off.
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“Stack ranking is organizational cancer.”
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So much this, the purple robes club has all the problems of ranking, except now you have solutions to problems being passed down from above which is demotivatingpic.twitter.com/uNBTurdDq7
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"functionality, quality, and schedule" you only get to choose two when building a product, if you don't choose quality all the best engineers will be out the door. don't choose a schedule until you know all the unknown unknowns.
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Don't do less well. Do less, well.
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