One of the things that happen to engineers is that hard-working, productive engineers are often given leeway to make faux pas because of their contributions. Today, one of the engineers wrote on a public, widely distributed emails the following (paraphrased). We suggested the aforementioned workaround to the customers. But since they cannot do it, we will have to do an emergency release instead. There are two parts here. One, the engineer suggested a workaround that will quickly solve the customers.

I finished Managing Humans from Michael Lopp today. I knew of Lopp through “Rands Leadership”, the Slack community he created. I enjoyed learning from the people in the community and thought I’d pick up his book. I’m not sure what I expected going into the book. I think I expected tips and rules that I can follow. After trying to summarize the book, I think what I wanted and got was a set of mental models that I am happy to add to my toolbox.