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Aaron Boodman
@aaronboodman.com

I always had disdain for management and sales, but I've really grown to enjoy these roles. It doesn't have to be the cliche you have in your head. Sales is telling people why your thing is great and how it can help them. Management is designing and debugging the machine that makes the code.

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Aaron Boodman
@aaronboodman.com

Minor example. I moved our sync from Tues to Mon as an experiment. It's amazing what a difference it had. It almost feels like the week has an extra day – all the pent up questions from the weekend get answered one day earlier. You can debug the team the same way you can debug software.

David Calavera
@calavera.dev

I stress this a lot to people that work with me. One of my last meeting changes at Amazon was a suggestion from a junior engineer. It was a trivial change in retrospect, but nobody thought about it beforehand. It happened because he had the agency to debug our process and identify what was missing