Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019) • Hacker News Board

Re: Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019)

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Post by _y5hn » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 5:15 PM UTC

victor9000 wrote: post #45

nullsense wrote: post #12

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I feel like everyone savvy just does this because they understand the consequences of not doing it and the clueless people always just bitch about there being so much office politics. In my experience it's just the communication protocol that works.

It's not so much politics as it is the fact that no one likes surprises, particularly not your boss or your boss's boss. Almost every major people-problem I've had to sort out in the past year has been a result of someone not getting buy-in from their team or superiors before proclaiming a major change. Change is good, everyone wants you to make your awesome improvements, but you're not a cowboy. You have to engage t…

They like to delay the surprises.

Re: Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019)

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Post by __blockcipher__ » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 8:57 PM UTC

sgtnoodle wrote: post #89

__blockcipher__ wrote: post #43

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Presumably you’re referring to corticosteroids which are not anabolic steroids. Or just making a tired joke, I couldn’t tell which :P

Prednisone, and it definitely altered my personality significantly. I also ordered $400 worth of RC quadcopter parts, and spent 8 hours straight sanding off and re-polishing the top surface of my eyeglass lenses to get rid of the anti-reflective coating that was cracked and pitted. In the month leading up to that, interactions at work were also giving me anxiety bordering on panic attacks, like a visceral fight-or-fl…

Ah, that totally makes sense. In retrospect it totally makes sense that the aggressive inflammation reduction of high-dose corticosteroids could cause that. By analogy, it's well-known that animals (including humans ofc) exhibit "sickness behavior" where they are lethargic, avoid social interaction, etc, which is probably (a) an "intentional" adaptation and (b) can probably be explained largely by the increase in inflammation from the immune response

Re: Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019)

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Post by cle » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 2:49 PM UTC

_y5hn wrote: post #120

vincentmarle wrote: post #39

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Also known as: consensus driven decision making

Bias through established group-think.

It’s easy to criticize, but the reality is that making decision with and motivating large groups of people involves tradeoffs that lead to theoretically suboptimal outcomes.