[HN Gopher] Systems as Mirrors
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Systems as Mirrors
Author : i8s
Score : 12 points
Date : 2025-10-12 06:21 UTC (1 days ago)
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| alphazard wrote:
| A non-intuitive consequence of this thesis is that the so called
| "parallel career ladder" doesn't work.
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| For those unfamiliar, I'm referring to the idea that managers can
| have roles and levels which are separate but equal from the
| levels that convey technical expertise. If the people who control
| the team structure don't also have the expertise to maintain an
| architectural vision for the product system, then the product is
| doomed to match the slow moving trends of office politics,
| instead of matching the current thinking of the technical
| leaders.
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