56 points bcherny 2 hours ago 14 comments

verdverm 2 hours ago | parent

sorry, but when you reach certain levels of influence, you need to slow down, be more methodical, and not be so flippant

glimshe 57 minutes ago | parent

Nothing more annoying than a manager with a personal know-it-all framework requiring people to follow it or else they get "feedback".

dofm 51 minutes ago | parent

He's often wrong, don't you know.

Just not about your performance review.

cube00 53 minutes ago | parent

I can't say I agree with forcing your team to use your own personal "framework" of approaching a problem or else you'll get "feedback".

> Sometimes I will give feedback to people when they are missing steps in the framework, or are poorly executing some of the steps. I expect the same feedback in return.

I also don't like that urgency is built in as the standard process either, no wonder everyone is burnt out.

> 6. Act with urgency to achieve the goal

CSSer 25 minutes ago | parent

But if you don't only surround yourself with people who think exactly like you, how will you ever recruit an army of yes men and women?

otterley 43 minutes ago | parent

This seems strongly aligned with the Amazon doc-writing and decision making process. I found it to be unusually effective as a business process, and took it with me when I left to my current role.

Making thoroughly informed decisions and iterating on a decision doc before committing to a direction and plan is better than every alternative I’ve ever observed in my career.

The criticism I’ve read thus far on this thread seems unwarranted. I give the same kind of feedback to my mentees when their work product or process could use improvement.

0gs 43 minutes ago | parent

i am pretty sure it would just be "wrong," not "meta-wrong," and given the title, i am giving myself the point.

Avicebron 35 minutes ago | parent

7. Reflect on that goal?

well_ackshually 29 minutes ago | parent

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Me me me me me me

This is what happens when you let things get to your head. You work on a (highly inefficient, often broken) piece of extremely basic software by prompting a slot machine and hoping it works. Calm down and stop forcing your shitty framework on employees, you're the most replaceable cog of all.

6LLvveMx2koXfwn 26 minutes ago | parent

Unlike me, 56 and yet to be wrong once.

Imanari 24 minutes ago | parent

Steps 1–5 of his framework are increasingly formal ways of saying “figure out what’s going on before doing something,” followed by step 6: “then do it fast”

jascha_eng 14 minutes ago | parent

That's what it took to finally support Agents.md I guess. Boris had to blog about having made a mistake.

How about you stop taking things so personal instead and let others steer more.

ks2048 2 minutes ago | parent

> I love being wrong

I prefer being right, but to each their own.