> Here are some basic engineering management tricks for helping your team stay focused and productive.
Maybe it’s just me, but using the word “tricks” here rubs me the wrong way. These are more suggestions on how to start constructive dialogs and listen more and talk less.
I don’t think anyone wants those in managerial positions playing tricks on them.
I appreciate the comparison made here to business attire and the author’s point that we’ve moved beyond debating the merits or faults of various work arrangements.
Over time, I hope more options emerge, allowing leaders and contributors to find the business environment that suits them best. If you like wearing suits, there are still employers who require it. Personally, I don’t thrive in that setting, but I’m glad to have options.
I prefer remote, hybrid, or flexible working arrangements and am willing to make some pay and career sacrifices for the quality of life they provide. For my own sanity, I can’t return to an open office five days a week. I need a quiet personal office/space to do my best focus work. Some folks love the open office experience, commute, and in-person collaboration. They’re free to seek those opportunities too. All employers needn’t be the same.
From my limited experience, core issue is that some people (a majority in some orgs) require other people to be around them to be productive/happy/whatever. And a lot of people don't have the freedom to choose where they work as options might be highly limited. So managers tend to sacrifice QoL of some workers to improve the performance of others. Sadly, it's usually those "others" that are the loudest and most dramatic, and least willing to compromise.
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Having a paywall on CNN will likely make me less likely to visit their site. If they somehow managed to convince me to pay, I’d expect the paid experience to be ad free.
I was excited about the Cloudflare announcements this past week. I primarily use AWS in my day job, but I wanted to broaden my knowledge. This weekend, I started building a simple to-do application using Durable Objects and the newly announced zero-latency SQLite storage. In just a few hours, I familiarized myself with Cloudflare and got the basic CRUD operations working. Next weekend, I plan to add WebSocket publications and a few other features, and then write a blog post about it. It was a great learning experience, and I’m impressed with what Cloudflare is doing.
One superpower we have is that AI can’t comply with RTO mandates. AI is missing out on all the commutes, water cooler talks, and collaboration that
allegedly makes companies like Amazon extremely competitive and innovative.
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