[HN Gopher] Trying something again
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       Trying something again
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2020-06-16 02:05 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
        
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