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by vi-mode 7y ago
Just wrote a similar piece like yours which brought up another thought: Do you think disintermediation is solvable when it's a BTB (so all parties are businesses) and you put heavy penalties on disintermediation?
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by vi-mode 7y ago
A wall of text intended as smart content marketing to get some awareness for a rather unknown investment firm or incubator--Crunchbase didn't show any raised funds, so I don't call them VC. The long, over-polite text, the fake lan
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Tbh, this sounds you like are heavily micromanaging your people because you don't have any task yourself. Did you ever got into 360 feedback? How was the outcome?
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by vi-mode 7y ago
You think I meant 100 direct reports? Without any structure?
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Um. Most people never managed many other people, how should they know what they prefer?
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by vi-mode 7y ago
> There is, in fact, fun to be found at every level Yes, but we are not on HN for such generic advice. Early in my career I thought that leadership is the end goal and just great, nobody told me that it's a bit more complex. My init
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by vi-mode 7y ago
You think so? I just disagreed with the things you wrote because I think some of your statements are wrong and/or mislead and they're altogether also inconsistent.
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Managing people != dealing with people This is the biggest misconception most have you have never led seriously. I like people, I like meeting people for a beer, for pair-programming, to date. Managing people is not about being with people.
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Sorry, but what you write could come from any of the millions of self-help leadership books or blog spam from the net. Random, generic advice. This is too simple for my taste and I am not talking about what effective leadership is. Maybe yo
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Wow, what's your stack?
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Hm, how should this work? If I'd ask you, 'How many direct reports do you have', what would you say? You need to use the term 'direct report' again. If you fuzzed around with 'my team' while I try to under
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by vi-mode 7y ago
And you have time to be on HN?
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Nice that you told us the story why you got into coding. I just tried to find an abstraction for the sake of simplicity. Of course we had all our triggers why we got into coding. And of course we had some specific end goal like you had
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by vi-mode 7y ago
This is getting a bit too deep now. I didn't say that I didn't enjoy it. I like challenges, my initial notion was just to express that words like 'fun' are far away from what leadership is. Btw, you didn't answer th
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Just reports. The ones directly reporting to you are called 'direct reports'. Latter also implies a bigger headcount and that the direct reports are managers themselves. So if you have a small, flat team you call your direct repor
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Yes, all non-top-tier investors and angels have currently a crappy deal flow. They read every email they get and they have a hard time to get into good deals right now.
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by vi-mode 7y ago
> it's still better than sending cold e-mail Just not true. This topic is complex and yes sending a cold email to a random investor is worse than getting a warm intro but these are two extremes. There are many ways to raise signific
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Yes but the context here is coder transforms to manager. And coders got coders because they like short feedback-loops.
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Hint: you should never frame your reports in such a way ('leaders under me'), 101 of leadership; but let's move on: I think we are not talking about the same; managing people has no short-term feedback loops like coding, it
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Yes and no. You can move mountains with good teams, this is great and you will draw satisfaction from. But IDK if you had ever 100+ people in your reporting line for a longer time. Then you knew that it's everything BUT definitely not
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by vi-mode 7y ago
PG is a smart mind with a long track record of achievements. Still people shouldn't follow him in a cult-like manner or turn him into a voodoo-kind role model, 'PG tweeted he needs a pink phone, I made him one'. While the ini
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by vi-mode 7y ago
OT: for those who have never been in leader/managerial positions: - Leading people is 1000x less fun than coding - Leading people makes your more money than as an avg coder - Leading people too long makes you lose your technical skills
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by vi-mode 7y ago
1st-world problems
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Easiest? Do I get a list with emails or do I have to click on contact every time? If it's latter I think it's anything but not easy.
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by vi-mode 7y ago
To get a no-BS CSV list, copy'n'paste all in (n)vim, then: :%s/,/;/g | %s/\t/,/g
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Before I started with k8s, I've been checking Nomad many times but eventually went with k8s. Nomad's learning curve didn't seem to be better, docs felt sparse and the much bigger ecosystem with k8s shouldn't be undervalu
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Maybe your analogy is not the best but you made a good point and I'd agree.
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by vi-mode 7y ago
I'm into computers for decades. The first time after ages a computer blew my mind again was when I got deep into k8s. If you haven't yet do it now, check k8s out, get knee-deep into it and not from a devops perspective but as one
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by vi-mode 7y ago
I switched to Windows because of WSL and I am also 90% in WSL. Trackpad (Thinkpad) is very close to a Macbook. Keyboard is way better and 5k support is also good through TB3. Hidpi support on Linux is a mixed bag, they get slowly there but
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by vi-mode 7y ago
Out of curiosity: Which email service is opening links itself? Yes, they scan attachments or check for domains known being malicious but opening links??

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