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If you're senior or have opinions about things, you know the feeling of falling into a rabbit hole of stuff you want to fix when you look at certain parts of your system. "I was go…

To me, if "you are responsible for what you write" is to mean anything in an org, it needs to come with teeth. If you are demonstrably _not_ responsible for what you write, that ne…

I don't think either of you is necessarily wrong (or good/bad here). They prefer to work the way they work (glaring issues and all), and are apparently successful working that way.…

I kept reading and reading to find the part where the author took responsibility for any part of this, then I got to the end.

Organize professionally and/or advocate for ourselves with our elected leaders so the consequence of AI/LLM advancement isn't a bunch of people having to individually ask themselve…

I've been building an app to replace a long-suffering Excel sheet I've used for retirement planning. Started off as a calculator, eventually turned into something like ProjectionLa…

I've been slowly migrating logins off of a @gmail.com email and onto an email at a domain that I own/control for this reason. It's tedious and feels a little like an overreaction (…

A founder who commits to 996 is as a side effect building a brand of "grit", "hustle", etc with their investors. That gives them options, regardless of whether 996 is actually usef…

Don't be silly, you have 0.01% of the company until they dilute you in their next raise.

I had this happen with an iPad that I received as an exchange when I sent one in for a repair. I booted the new unit up and was prompted to enroll the device in MDM for a school di…

Do you have a stake in the company – options, RSUs, golden handcuffs that you'd be walking away from, or whose value these decisions may be jeopardizing? If not, what are you getti…

I've been at my employer (unicorn startup) for several years now, and have worked myself to a staff+ role. I burned out pretty badly last year. I've been slowly coming back from th…

I have a year of living expenses in cash, several more in low-risk investments. I've been practicing interview skills (but I was doing that anyway). Making sure I have local copies…

I've been this in jobs, and am one of these people in my current job, so I can relate to what you wrote here. There's a lot that goes into switching jobs, so it's hard to offer as …