emma-w

    "As the person leading the meeting, your job is to provoke and channel the talents and expertise of everyone in the discussion. This rarely makes you look smart."

This reminds me of the Steve Jobs quote:

    "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."

+1, I actually started toying with blogging about dev management because of the excellent HN discussion on that article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23872625

and this equally excellent discussion:

Developers can't fix bad management (2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27458785

LOL, why is my article flagged? I mean, I sort of love the notoriety, but still, why?

Because traditional authoritative sources that I would look to for guidance are completely out of date. From where I sit it looks to me like they are more focused on milking endowments than discovering what is happening in the real world.

Wait what? Really? Why?

This.

>And of course the author knows.

Author here, I don't actually know, I'm still learning.

But I know that by observation most of my peers are truly ignorant and just winging it.

Fixing that would make life better for everyone.

That was my risky click for the day!

Isn't it true that Rust is meant to solve problems in spaces where those languages really can't play? I'll admit to plenty of ignorance about all three of those languages, so I'm genuinely curious what you think.