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Mars Lander PM "Likes people"
1 points by dclapp 14y ago|0 comments
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by dclapp 14y ago
Interesting. I also prefer criticism, if it is intelligent and useful. Mere praise won't help me get better. When you go to a good music instructor, for example, you're paying for the well reasoned criticism, although encouragement is also
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by dclapp 14y ago
While I realize that the plural of anecdote isn't data, this is pretty much my point exactly. The venture capitalists take a large position for a small amount of money... minimizing the risk and maximizing their potential profit. the founde
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by dclapp 14y ago
The way to get good people to work with you is to be the kind of person people want to work with. Seems obvious to me. I have worked with jerks, and with people I continue to love and admire to this day. Like many of you, I'm sure. Since I
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by dclapp 14y ago
Actually, I'm obsessive. But that's my problem, and I would not inflict it on an employee. :-)
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by dclapp 14y ago
I have been a manager in both businesses. of course there are differences; but there are also many similarities. the big idea is that if there is a firm, inflexible deadline, you will meet it. You may not ship the product that you really wi
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by dclapp 14y ago
Well, you just have to say no. if your business works for clients, the clients will always kill you if you let them. insane demands, low ball bids, etc. this is as old as capitalism, and particularly found in advertising agencies... and pri
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by dclapp 14y ago
No, I meant a five… Or maybe four who knows…day work week. Please excuse my imprecise math. :-). And while I realize that there are exceptions, I would be delighted to get four solid hours of good coding daily from any programmer.
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by dclapp 14y ago
I love your words "...five lines of algorithmically beautiful code..."; this beautiful functional minimalism is what engineering is really all about; and it solves problems not only in the present but also in the future. And code that isn't
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by dclapp 14y ago
Okay, one last thing. Richard Branson, a business genius, said "Praise people and they flower; criticize them and they wilt." So praise and cheerlead and mentor relentlessly. And, like the best baseball managers, put people in positions wh
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by dclapp 14y ago
Hi Michael. I think that Apple in those days is a field that is well-plowed. folklore.org is a particularly fun site. Start-ups? Business is business. it can be as high-stress or as peaceful as you decide to make it. Software development,
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by dclapp 14y ago
What you call crunch time is what I call poor project management. I started out as the managing editor of a daily newspaper. We shipped an entire product every day. We never slipped, we never missed a daily deadline… Just like every other d
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by dclapp 14y ago
Based on emails, I'd say it was a person, who I won't name, at ycombinator.
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A note I sent to YCombinator
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