[HN Gopher] Trying something again ___________________________________________________________________ Trying something again Author : luu Score : 43 points Date : 2020-06-16 02:05 UTC (20 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.cynically.moe) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.cynically.moe) | trophycase wrote: | "I don't know everything, I just know what I know." | | Not sure if this is a reference, but this is a catch phrase of a | character from the monogatari anime series. [1] | | That being said it's an interesting post. I mostly feel the same | way but kind of dropped out of tech altogether after 2 bad | experiences at $BIGCO companies. Maybe a startup would be a | better experience for me. | | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hstREyXBqpw | gumby wrote: | I feel so too. My gf, who has worked at a series of ${BIGCO}s, is | a little frustrated frustrated by this: "but you could be earning | more and working shorter hours" (what a laugh when you see the | hours she puts in). | | Yes, but I would not be happy, and while my take home is lower my | lifetime earnings have been a couple of orders of magnitude | higher (the sum, not most years of course). | | But it's less the money than the fun. | motohagiography wrote: | On the list of things the OP wants was, "Product I believe in - | alignment of the team towards a true north centered on product, | Minimal levels of team toxicity" | | A quicker way to find this may be by popping up a level and | asking, "who do I really want to help, and then what product do | they need?" | | That lack of a "who," in the north star turns companies into a | race to the bottom. The "why," implied by the "who" needs to be | there as well, but find some people you like or admire and build | something they want. It's a different class of problem than | working for a large org where most of big corp products are just | about leverage and optimization, instead of desire and growth. | | Who do you want to help? | gtirloni wrote: | _.moe is a proposed TLD in ICANN 's New gTLD Program. The | applicant is Interlink.[1] It is a Japanese word with a meaning | analogous to both "geek" and "passion". The proposed application | succeeded and was delegated to the Root Zone on 31 March 2014._ | | https://icannwiki.org/.moe | inquist wrote: | Makes sense to me. Good luck! | | > Ironically, this sort of cross functional work is highly | valued, but if you're drawn to this path, you'll find yourself | doing much more cutting through red tape than real work. | | I find myself in this position. I've been with my company since | it was tiny (10 employees total) to now (~150). I have functioned | as a generalist for most of that time and I'm somewhat divided | between architecture and coordination efforts versus actual | coding. The original core dev team has mainly become the backend | team and we have a newer frontend team. I recently shifted from | the backend team to frontend, and now I'm able to help bridge | between them so I'm hoping to help avoid some of those siloing | pitfalls. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-06-16 23:00 UTC)