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I remember when I was young and I knew everything. No one could tell me anything. Everyone was just so stupid. It was so obvious what the correct answer was and how everybody was wrong all the time. The world was filled with morons and I had to fight all the time.
Then I learned a bit. And I got a realization of the depth of knowledge that I did not have.
I think I was about 25 when I met Ben Tilly. This was the first person I ever met that I respected by default. He never said anything stupid. He often said things that made me think deeply. Every person before this person was a moron. Sure, they might have been accomplished by societal standards, but I could quickly find faults in their logic. Nothing collapses an ego more than meeting a true genius. Most of the people I dealt with still had no f****** clue but there was always someone else that knew more than me.
As a group leader and the departmental manager, I spent years trying to find people smarter than me. I knew I was good but there was always someone better that I could learn from.
Maybe I made the 90%. But I could hire people in the 99s if I just treated them right.
Looking back I can say I built some great teams. I used to say managing programmers was like herding cats. But I love cats. I love the little moment of making the kissing noise and rubbing my fingers together and wondering if that cat will go that quarter inch towards me. Same thing as a programmer. You got to attract them with exactly what they want and be prepared for them to tell you to go f*** yourself. Elon musk is trying to manage programmers right now and he's failing miserably. I know that feeling as well.
As an almost 60-year-old who's a felon who can't have a real job, I get to look back. I'm not competing with the the brilliant children. And I get to smoke a lot of pot and kick back in my hot tub. So I don't have the same crazy competitive attitude I used to. I got to tell you I pity the next generation's of children. We had the dot com run up. We had infinite good possibilities. These poor bastards are dealing with global depression.
I remember when I was young and I knew everything. No one could tell me anything. Everyone was just so stupid. It was so obvious what the correct answer was and how everybody was wrong all the time. The world was filled with morons and I had to fight all the time.
Then I learned a bit. And I got a realization of the depth of knowledge that I did not have.
I think I was about 25 when I met Ben Tilly. This was the first person I ever met that I respected by default. He never said anything stupid. He often said things that made me think deeply. Every person before this person was a moron. Sure, they might have been accomplished by societal standards, but I could quickly find faults in their logic. Nothing collapses an ego more than meeting a true genius. Most of the people I dealt with still had no f****** clue but there was always someone else that knew more than me.
As a group leader and the departmental manager, I spent years trying to find people smarter than me. I knew I was good but there was always someone better that I could learn from.
Maybe I made the 90%. But I could hire people in the 99s if I just treated them right.
Looking back I can say I built some great teams. I used to say managing programmers was like herding cats. But I love cats. I love the little moment of making the kissing noise and rubbing my fingers together and wondering if that cat will go that quarter inch towards me. Same thing as a programmer. You got to attract them with exactly what they want and be prepared for them to tell you to go f*** yourself. Elon musk is trying to manage programmers right now and he's failing miserably. I know that feeling as well.
As an almost 60-year-old who's a felon who can't have a real job, I get to look back. I'm not competing with the the brilliant children. And I get to smoke a lot of pot and kick back in my hot tub. So I don't have the same crazy competitive attitude I used to. I got to tell you I pity the next generation's of children. We had the dot com run up. We had infinite good possibilities. These poor bastards are dealing with global depression.