Programmers have traditionally been contemptuous of management: if you're not writing code what are you even doing with your time? I picked this up through general culture, and I remember my instinctive shudder and recoil the first time my boss asked if I was interested in management. As I got a better understanding of what managers were doing, though, I came to appreciate how good ones could let us be much more productive:
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They gave us context on how the business worked, the role our team played, what we were trying to do, and how our work fit into a larger whole.
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They helped us figure out what to work on, breaking large projects that were too big for any of us into approachable chunks.
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They gave prompt feedback, helping us build mental models of what good work [...]
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First published:
May 17th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rhLbcWna8npw8BavC/management-is-the-near-future
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