Why Heroism Is Bad and What We Can Do to Stop It
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#2Heroism is what you do until you manage to secure the headcount and hire the team that lets you run things smoothly.
In the real world, getting approval for headcount can take 6 months, hiring 3, training another 3.
So you need to sustain heroism for a year without burning out.
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#3In my experience being the hero is fantastic … until you want to go on vacation, have a sick day, change teams, or get promoted. Hard to promote someone irreplaceable.
Always code (or mentor) yourself out of the job and let others play with your legos. Even if they do it wrong.
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#4Heroism is what you do until you manage to secure the headcount and hire the team that lets you run things smoothly. In the real world, getting approval for headcount can take 6 months, hiring 3, training another 3. So you need to sustain heroism for a year without burning out.
Heroism as described in this slideshow prevents anyone from realizing/accepting that they need to hire the appropriate headcount.
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#5It's wild to me that ICANN allowed .google and other brands to be TLDs.
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#6There are people so addicted to this that they will literally create problems out of nowhere so they can pull some heroics and save the day, always with high visibility from management. Seen a person advance pretty far in their career this way. Until management stops incentivizing this behavior, it won't stop. This is a management issue - which seems weird because this writing seems targeted towards IC's.
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#7could Google stop the "heroism syndrome" and give us the source-code for their deactivated services? even if they aren't parsed to their heroic servers and it's about being self-host-able by non-heroes
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#8"No matter how many hours they need to work."
"No matter that they need to work evenings and weekends."
I don't call these people heroes, I call them idiots.
Also, not being able to copy/paste text from text slides is a pretty terrible design choice, but we shouldn't be surprised knowing what the source is.
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#10Not sure if heroism is bad.
[1] All teams should have a Jordan, a kobe, a shaquille or a combi. One needs A players and supporting cast. It is not the culture or the org who decides upon the evolution of the heroism. It is the hero who builds a team around him/her. [2] the scrum or agile saga that promotes that all team members should be able to do what all team members do is just excel-minded-nonesense. Cant win championships with only goalkeepers, or only midfielders. Cant prep one to be good in both either during a lifetime.
Probably google wants weat crops that always look alike and are predictable?