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It’s a good callout, shouldn’t have editorialized like that.

Not even close to the point I was making: If you want to get taken seriously, write to audience.

zendesk is 6k employees, they have general council on staff

3 is hardly a sea shanty of vulnerabilities for a 7 year old library. I think you're conflating releases with vulns.

In no way is this an interns fault. If your entire infrastructure relies on the secure password of ...

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... a single intern! then you're doing it wrong.

> Why’d he quit? ... he told me this: at each stage of a company’s growth, they have different needs. Those needs generally require different skills. What he enjoyed, and what he had the skills to do, was to take a tiny company and make it medium sized. Once a company was at that stage of growth, he was less interested and less good at taking them from there.

This is an aspect that gets overlooked in many businesses & careers. I've heard it phrased that companies go through 3 stages: Startup, Scale Up, Optimize. The above quote is a sub-stage of Scale Up. Some people are built for just a single stage and knowing how and where your skillset fits in is crucial to career happiness. As well as knowing when to encourage employees to move on.

Great post and I wish @steveklabnik continued success in his career!

> TVs blaring in waiting rooms when you'd prefer to just sit in silence.

When I can, I turn the TVs off. No one has complained yet.

> Getting motivated to lift 2x a week is another issue...

Was in the same boat until I started doing group classes. Used that to build accountability, motivation, and a "vocabulary" of how the gym works. Now I could spend hours at the gym by myself and love it. Find what works for you, cuz lifting is a blast!

Not training managers on how to manage.

When devs are promoted into management or team lead positions they are not given adequate training on what it means to manage / lead. Thus devs don't learn what good management is, and the stereotype of the bad manager perpetuates.

Password protected zip. And/or wrap in another zip is usually enough to thwart Gmail