insulfrable
Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
Listen more than you speak.
Replicate more than you innovate.
And write it all down as you go.
If your team is half decent, they already know where your skills truly are, and they're comfortable with it. And before you know it, you'll be the senior engineer.
Managers don't fear they will become irrelevant. It's bad managers who are having trouble figuring out how to manage without seeing people at their desk.
What's mind blowing to me is that despite two years of being forced to evaluate people by their impact rather than by their physical presence, so many managers still don't have a clue how to do this right.
Meanwhile, healthy remote teams are thriving, and competent middle managers there provide incredible value, from managing execution to keeping the social tissue of their teams together.
But they just lost 37% on the "too good" money.
So where do you think these people are going next?
Firefox has good engineers who work hard and deserve your trust but they don't set the product direction. The lawyers and politicians do.
This isn't new, and not knowing how to deal with it is like a builder not knowing how to safely stand up a wall.