management
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The Organised Manager
→: The Organised ManagerMy adored Camille is writing a book on management, which will no doubt be amazing, and asked me to contribute a section on being an organised manager. She says, “Managing people is hard, and and as an industry we’re bad it. We lack the experience, the tools, the texts, and the frameworks to do it…
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Trip Report: The Lead Developer 2016
→: Trip Report: The Lead Developer 2016Last year I spoke at the Lead Developer, and this year I was excited to come back as an attendee. It was really great last year, but speaking is super stressful and always my priority is to give a good performance, so I sometimes don’t get to enjoy events I’m speaking at that much. Or I’m…
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Worthless Intent
→: Worthless IntentOne of the things that I write about in my lessons learned from 6 months of managing blogpost was about my realisation that intentions do actually matter. “I’ve long found discussion of “intentions” completely worthless. I just don’t want to hear about it. Especially in the context that it invariably is – men who tell…
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Creative Coding Podcast
→: Creative Coding PodcastI was on another podcast! This time, creative coding with @seb_ly [listen]. We talked about managing coders, color theory, side projects, lasers, being homeless, interviewing (and applied humaning). It was really fun (but cold!) to record, and I hope you enjoy it.
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6 Months. 6 Lessons.
→: 6 Months. 6 Lessons.Last week marked my six-month anniversary at Ride, which also marks six months of being a manager. It coincided with my team being in Medellin all together for our offsite. It was amazing to have everyone here, and this was part of something I have been thinking about since I started this job – how…
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Book: Leadership and Self-Deception
→: Book: Leadership and Self-DeceptionI read Leadership and Self Deception (Amazon) years ago, several times. It was a book that profoundly changed the way that I think about things, the way that I approach the world. When some conflict arose at work, I saw how the ideas in the book would help, and tried to get everyone on my…
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4 Situations Where Managers Write Code
→: 4 Situations Where Managers Write CodeThe two hardest things about becoming a manager have been: 1) the emotional exhaustion, and 2) letting go of the part of my identity that was tied up in writing code. I accepted that writing code wasn’t the best thing I could do reasonably quickly, but it took longer to finally stop saying I was…
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I’m a Terrible Mentor: Here’s Why
→: I’m a Terrible Mentor: Here’s WhyI hate mentoring and I don’t want to do it. This is mainly a product of me hating three things. One-directional relationships. Other people’s priorities not my own. Giving advice. One-directional relationships are so exhausting, because you can’t really be open. Being a manager has – oh the irony – made me less open to…
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Management and Misanthropy with Cate and Camille
→: Management and Misanthropy with Cate and CamilleWe did a podcast.