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> most burnout is mostly caused by managers and culture that just doesn't care about people. A good manager will get an employee who is approaching burnout to take a break/vacation…

> I'm undecided if the burnout was caused by the job or my inexperience. It was probably both. Likely the job as in the management - I explained their role in my root comment here:…

> I’ve been working on a startup on the side with my friend for almost a year now and the work has rarely ever burnt me out. Well done! I explained this paradox in my root comment …

> Companies that require 50-80 hour weeks, bosses who yell and scream regularly, psychologically manipulative situations, and environments where people are prevented from having co…

> Fortune 500's and FAANGs, as large organizations, generally shift towards exploitive, or at the least, behaviors lacking the reciprocity expected 1. What could be causing that? 2…

> I was fortunate enough to get promoted into a senior management position, where I am mostly focused on tech strategy and not true "developer work" anymore. 1. Did your find doing…

> a high-performing individual contributor who “lacks” an eye for the bigger picture, because I show little interest in the business side of things If focusing on engineering, tech…

> I would never have reached the point of ability that I did reach I think you're conflating skill and ability with impact and expectations. Early on in your life, your expectation…

> My job has less (no) global impact. What I did previously affected far more people. I told people what project I was on and they thought that was cool. But I don’t hate my life o…

The root cause of burnout - be it coding or otherwise, is when expectations don't match reality. In most cases, people want to do meaningful work and see their work having real imp…

> Are you thinking of Reddit (or HN) style threads? Not the OP but this would really help Happy to create an issue if this is a new request or upvote if there's an existing request…

I prefer Caddy proxy and with Caddy it's just a single reverse proxy line (it handles the websockets transport seamlessly)

+1 Integration with Google Meet, Zoom would really help. I see plugins for both but could never get them to work (teams edition though) The expectation is that, just like on slack,…

> This would be interesting if E2EE was officially supported The reality is people claim to need E2EE but it's not worth paying extra for it. It's kind of like how people nod when …

> Mattermost v7 was released on Thursday and includes video conferencing functionality have you tried running it using Mattermost team (the OSS) instance? I also use their cloud in…

> We now have multiple Mattermost server support in the mobile apps in Beta! If you're interested to try it out, here's how you can join the Mattermost Mobile app beta program. Thi…

> the more places I work the more I realize that the standard is bad leadership. True! Why is that, though? Like - do the great leaders retire quick? Or is it that we are just an u…

> Problem solving, decomposition, and the ability to temporarily hold large amounts of information (documentation indexes / what functions are available? kinda things) are all more…

> my own boss resigned last month and we've been interviewing for his replacement. I haven't decided whether or not to apply for his position; I don't want all of his responsibilit…

> How many things are on my own plate that I haven't done anything about yet? A lot sure but that's not how leadership works. Part of leadership is prioritization and ownership.

> My career trajectory was Dev -> Senior -> Lead -> Director -> Senior. I left a company and purposefully looked for my next job further down the ladder, after having profound burn…

Does competency in writing in a natural language correlate to competency in a programming language? I am wondering if there's opportunity in training english/french, anthropology, …

Is there an Android alarm clock app that can be managed over a REST/HTTP API? I would like to CRUD alarms on my Android phones over a REST/HTTP API. Even better would be if I could…

Right on the money! I also suggested building good, strong relationships.

> which ones have the highest returns Build good, strong relationships. As geeks we dont tend to value human relationships. However, good, strong relationships will pay out dividen…