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November 16, 2004
Nikki's Questions
My first question I have a feeling I need to have some background to. Even technical positions have a hiearchy to them. A coder will have a manger that will report to their manager, etc. So, do you think you could manage being a manager?
I ran the damn clan, didn’t I? :)
I took a couple management classes. Judy thought I had potential, which I think is a pretty good sign. I got the material, came up with a couple interesting ideas in one of the classes. I ran the group in compilers, which succeeded in spite of a serious fuckup and, later on, a lame duck albeit well-meaning replacement. My Mom is a natural manager and has always tried to instill in me that kind of thinking, for what it’s worth. I think I could even enjoy it. I like thinking on the Clan level, whatever that means.
Now, it’s not going to happen at Matterform, and I definitely don’t think it would happen with the Co-Op. Management issues are the main reason why open source is so much more productive: they don’t have management! Simultaneously, they don’t have icky things that are no fun to write, like good user interfaces or user documentation, and those things are always necessary in a commercial product. I think that my employment for the next several years is pretty much set in those two operations, so I probably won’t get to flex the managerial muscle anytime soon. Which I don’t mind. But someday, it might be nice. :)
Who gives/gave better blow jobs, Alex or me?
Alex. =)
If you were a superhero, what would your super-power be?
The power to work on more than one all-consuming task at a time.
Posted by FusionGyro at November 16, 2004 12:50 AM
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