Next year, I'm looking into if I can port some of my old .NET code to .NET Core.
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What kind of dev work do you do that requires traveling?
It's mostly because the dev team is geographically disperse (India/Boston/Seattle). I also have to meet with customers occasionally and of course they could be anywhere.
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#15I planned to learn React and modern JS/Web dev (had been doing iOS/Swift dev.) Instead, my dev. manager left and, since I was the most senior person on the team, I was given the job. So, instead of learning React, I learned that I kind of like dev. management, or at least some parts of it. I also learned that I like traveling for work. I would never have thought that this would be so, but I was encouraged to try it a…
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It's mostly because the dev team is geographically disperse (India/Boston/Seattle). I also have to meet with customers occasionally and of course they could be anywhere.
Don't want to turn this into a reddit AMA but .. would be nice to hear how you managed your transition to management. Did you read any books or blogs that helped? I was in a similar situation and have basically been emulating the style of previous managers - not sure how the team feels but I'm in a bit of a funk - feel like I'm letting myself down.
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#17Also learned a lot of Elixir.
Both are things which in the past year I've commited to learn. Learning is a constant process, next year I expect more of the same, but a higher mastery level!
Also learned a decent amount of management things, better organization skills etc, but that I didn't plan for.
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Don't want to turn this into a reddit AMA but .. would be nice to hear how you managed your transition to management. Did you read any books or blogs that helped? I was in a similar situation and have basically been emulating the style of previous managers - not sure how the team feels but I'm in a bit of a funk - feel like I'm letting myself down.
I am not the original poster, but you can do much worse than reading and really thinking about _The Phoenix Project_ and _High Output Management_.