See, thats what incompetent management doesnt understand. Management is not about status or power or rising among ranks just to score points, its about who can best organise and coordinate. Power hungry managers dont belong in tech or science jobs.
Not even organise / coordinate, that's not the most important thing that I get from the best manager, actually that's the easy part.
The best managers I had were helping me debug things when I get stuck. When there's a seg fault in a multithreaded program, or the project just doesn't seem to go anywhere for some time because I don't really know what to do or I'm going in a bad direction with my local improvements, somebody more mature than me / person with more experience just knows what to do.
Just fishing out the api keys is a feat in and of itself. Then there's like what, 3 to 5 different ways you can set up a mailing list, all using slightly incompatible methods/datastructures/layouts/whatever. By the way, I'm calling it a mailing list because that's what they are. But mailchimp has different unique terminology for each way. And that's just the tip.
MailChimp was great until it wasn't. I decided to use aweber for my last project after previously using MailChimp to manage over 100k subscribers.
That said, I highly respect the fact they've been bootstrapping. And I don't that bootstrapping has anything to do with the lousy choices made after they reached significant scale. You can't win them all.
not OP but I do wish that the lobster metaphor was the worst part of the book. I think Petereson is a great speaker and he makes interesting points but his writing drags on and on. I could hardly finish the 12 rules of life, although I thoroughly enjoyed his lectures and interviews.
God to agree with the parent, his audio books are excellent. If you like Petersons work and lectures get Maps of Meaning on audio books, it's excellent.
The problem is you need to read the article to find out the author is...young. Perhaps they assume that the title screens out those of a certain depth of experience. Like misspellings in Nigerian scam emails...
One of the many things that surprised me in the US was seemingly complicated means of transferring cash between bank accounts. This process has been trivial in Nigeria (and some other countries) for a long time now with the NIBSS settlement system. I look forward to hearing about the progress of this project and the possible impact to existing payment services such as Venmo, Cashapp, Paypal...
I think the headline differs (perhaps for traffic). The post seems to discuss concerns about the discovery/trending feature - how developers "discover" new code.
