I just read a piece about 'how to lead your team in crisis' and it's all war analogies.
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I just read a piece about 'how to lead your team in crisis' and it's all war analogies.
I am tired of this desire for war analogies in tech.
War rooms! War games! Killing it! Get in the trenches! Etc!
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@skinnylatte "killer app/feature" is one I hear often and AGH, it's been hard to unlearn
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
You're making people click on more things, to buy more shit. You're not going to war, no one is going to die if someone doesn't click this now
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How to lead a team in a crisis? I dunno, knit together. Make coffee. Laugh. Be human. Don't fling war terms around for fun.
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professional theremin playerreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte textile work and coffee are more important than guns in the apocalypse
You cannot have a society without people weaving and mending fabrics
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Adrianna Tanreplied to professional theremin player last edited by
@katieonviolin i'm going to be the weird chemist mixing photography chemicals
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@skinnylatte there is _a lot_ of war terminology embedded in English idioms and it’s a damn shame.
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@skinnylatte maybe we should just overuse the military metaphor to taint it?
I think I will start exterminating bugs instead of fixing them ... 🫣 -
coldclimatereplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
@skinnylatte bring clarity. Bring calm. Make clear requests. Set a rhythm and a cadence. Work behind the scenes where needed. Assess, stem the flow, mitigate, fix, cleanup, learn, improve.
Sod all this macho shit, being an incident commander during an outage is more like coordinating a classroom than going to war I believe. -
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God, I detest "killing it" and "crushing it" so much, and they're everywhere in startupland. Just a preening display of puerile violent manliness. -
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All this! And I mean…“Boat in a Storm,” “Wilderness Survival,” and “Firefighters Get the Call” are all just sitting right there, people. -
@skinnylatte Well, the US have been working hard for decades to generate enough veterans to ... improve management.
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Maybe sometimes the servers should go down and it's okay if they don't come back up right away.
(Exceptions of course for critical infrastructure)
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Alexandra Magin 🏳️🌈replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
@skinnylatte Meanwhile there are actual wars which are probably actually stressing out team members (either because they know people affected, or because of the downstream effects of political conflicts)