Comments by "HalfSourLizard" (@halfsourlizard9319) on "Thriving Technologist" channel.

  1. Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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  2. I'm always surprised how willing many ICs are to take worse ROI in exchange for an allegedly-fancier title.
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  3. Move from IC to manager isn't a promotion; it's just a different path / function.
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  4. What company do you work with? I think we all want to avoid it ... and you.
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  5. The fundamental problem is that corporate environments don't reward learning (a.k.a., being wrong and becoming less-wrong) ... They're highly risk-averse and value objectively-worse & predictable over (potentially-)better & unknown ... Agile actually seems to actually work pretty well for us in a research environment, but we have a vastly different culture -- and no MBA idiots who need their MBO / KPI / OKR / other bullshit business-y pseudoscience three-letter-initialisms to seem credible.
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