Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?

Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by dasmoth on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:09AM (#15034415)

I'd suggest virtually the opposite: a good way to be an outlier is to have reasonably broad knowledge plus being good at learning new stuff, such that when faced with a new problem you can quickly bring the right set of skills/technologies/whatever at it.

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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by jaggederest on Thursday August 17, 2017 @08:26AM (#15036070)

I think "10x" is just bad shorthand.

If you want to talk about it from a financial perspective, talk about the rate of return.

Can one developer do ten times the work any other developer does during a week? Probably not.

Can one developer have a rate of return such that they get ten times more valuable work done? Almost certainly.

So developer A delivers 3% improvement per year and developer B delivers 6% improvement per year. Across a career, if you start with 100 units, developer A delivers 245 units at the end, and developer B delivers 2008 units.

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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by gaius on Thursday August 17, 2017 @10:26AM (#15037049)

That is less a factor of the person and more of the environment tho'.

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