[HN Gopher] Inbox Ten
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       Inbox Ten
        
       Author : kiyanwang
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2024-06-03 04:22 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | KaiserPro wrote:
       | "I have the luxury of an army of support staff to control the
       | flow of information to me, for I am the peak of the information
       | pyramid"
       | 
       | He has a sortof point which is you need to sift through the noise
       | to get the signal. The issue is, and he's very much shielded from
       | this, is that most places have a massive amount of noise, and its
       | impossible to keep up.
       | 
       | If its my job to be the "decider" as he likes to be, and I am the
       | top of the pyramid, then its trivial to be informed all the time.
       | 
       | If I have to do other things as well as this, then its hard.
       | 
       | At smaller companies I had an information network, which meant I
       | was very well informed. I could, if I needed to, broker
       | information.
       | 
       | At a large FAANG, and not living in the main country, that is
       | impossible. You are reliant on third parties who you don't know
       | personally.
        
       | rsstack wrote:
       | "If someone sends me a chat that isn't time sensitive, I redirect
       | them to email"
       | 
       | I have a private Linear project, and I use the Linear-Slack
       | integration to create issues from non-urgent chat messages. Being
       | in Linear means I can track and label issues and link them it to
       | related issues in public projects.
       | 
       | Of course, only if "Remind me in 3 hours" isn't good enough.
       | 
       | I do the same thing for GitHub mentions / PR requests: They
       | automatically open a private Linear issue, and I triage them
       | twice a day. I try to respond during the triage process if it's a
       | short response and if not, put a due date for later. If someone
       | needs an urgent response (rarely), then they can Slack me to get
       | my immediate attention.
        
       | frenchie4111 wrote:
       | "You feel well informed and rarely hear new information
       | secondhand."
       | 
       | I am not sure I agree with the premise that I should not expect
       | to hear information secondhand. I find it fairly effective to
       | have a network of well connected individuals in the org who will
       | ping me when there is new information I need to know about. We
       | help each other stay more disconnected (and productive) by acting
       | as information filters/forwarders. I allow these people to have
       | interrupt privileges for me because I know if they are sending me
       | a notification it has been vetted for urgency
        
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