My next office mug
What I want for my next office mug, Foogo. 
Maybe I do need to get out more...
What I want for my next office mug, Foogo.
Maybe I do need to get out more...
Wow, I'm an uncle now.
Padraig was born Monday morning 14 April 2008.
1. R's Birthday
2. Darwin Day on Feb 12th (or thereabout).
And probably something else. I mean something besides looking at my taxes.
I am not a manager, and I don't think I would survive as one. I believe that being a good manager takes a lot of work, and I am not sure if the compensation (money, personal satisfaction, and sense of accomplishment) would be worth the additional time, stress, and hassle. That is not even considering whether or not I would be any good at it. I think being a bad manager would be depressing, because I think you would feel bad hampering rather than enabling other people's productivity. I don't know if I'm very good at being empathic to people, or influencing others, or communicating and expressing goals in such a way as to have everyone share in the delivery and feel rewarded from success. I know I am not good at filtering uncertainty that makes many people nervous.
Anyhow, Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) has been recently updating his blog with three entries about different management techniques, while simplistic, it is at least slightly interesting as food for though about what makes a organization or team work, or not work as the case too often seems to be. Maybe geeks want a management optimizer, just like with their C/C++ compilers, enable -O2 and the performance reviews are done, the budget spreadsheet is balanced, and the task list is not growing geometrically.
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