Programmers have traditionally been contemptuous of management: if you're not writing code what are you even doing with your time? I picked this up through general culture, and I remember my instinctive shudder and recoil the first time my boss asked if I was interested in management. As I got a better understanding of what managers were doing, though, I came to appreciate how good ones could let us be much more productive:

They gave us context on how the business worked, the role our team played, what we were trying to do, and how our work fit into a larger whole.
They helped us figure out what to work on, breaking large projects that were too big for any of us into approachable chunks.
They gave prompt feedback, helping us build mental models of what good work [...]

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First published:
May 17th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rhLbcWna8npw8BavC/management-is-the-near-future

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