“The piece of advice that I give to new managers—and this sounds simple but it’s really hard—is you have to really listen to your people. They are telling you what they want, and you have to hear it. At the end of the day, it’s not about you. It’s what this human is telling you.”
https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-michael-lopp-interview-management
Not surprising that the entire concept of ‘ethical AI’ is another scam perpetuated by the MIT Media Lab. At this point I would assume any project coming out of that institution to be compromised unless proven otherwise.
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/20/mit-ethical-ai-artificial-intelligence/
“The best engineers can toggle back and forth between manager and IC roles. Make sure your technical foundation and fundamental skills are solid enough to pull that off.”
Raylene Yung drops a massive list of career trips for engineers and engineering managers.
I know more about TikTok than almost everybody around me and still I hardly know anything about TikTok.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/how-meme-accounts-surface-the-meanest-parts-of-tiktok.html
It’s not that often that you see a guide how to hire engineering managers, let alone people at the DirEng/VPE level. That makes this guide by Rushab Doshi rare and useful.
https://rushabhdoshi.com/2019/11/04/hiring-engineering-leaders.html
Translated diary excerpts of a soldier involved in the Dersim Massacre describe a normal kind of horror.
A wild ride of an article that draws the essential but often overlooked connections between neoliberalism and fascism.
“If “star salaries” can’t be explained by contribution to the productive enterprise, high managerial compensation would appear to be what economists call “rent” — essentially, profit extraction.”
“The most plausible explanation is that supermanagers are paid for governance where the state has been redeployed elsewhere or, even, effectively dissolved.”
“Anyone who takes seriously the threat of the newly empowered reactionary right, must take seriously the role neoliberalism has played in laying out the red carpet for its arrival.”
Every place that turns car free like the city center of Ghent here is incredibly well received by the residents. The people who seem to be against it don’t live there, they just want to drive through.
You are indeed probably not communicating enough. My advice is to just communicate more. If you are communicating too much (highly unlikely that you would reach that point), people will let you know.
Wild that even a mild cycling habit at the population level can strongly reduce obesity rates.