Leaders Are Tool Builders: Why I Wrote My Own JavaScript UI Framework
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Leaders Are Tool Builders: Why I Wrote My Own JavaScript UI Framework
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Re: Leaders Are Tool Builders: Why I Wrote My Own JavaScript UI Framework
#2The reasoning feels 'off' to me. They created a framework because the author wanted to be a leader, and because Meta's initial motivation was their ad manager... but those are philosophy/ideology reasons, not actual technical reasons. React is indeed complicated that is true, however other frameworks exist, which are also popular, and easier to work with, and to find answers for. I feel that's a pretty important factor - if you are spending your people time on building and maintaining a framework, that's time not being spent on other parts of the business.
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#3"Leaders are tool builders" reads like someone trying to convince themselves of their own marketing hype. It's a generalisation that certainly doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Martin Luther King, for example, was a leader, and he's not known for his tool-crafting prowess.
Some leaders create tools. Some people who aren't, or wouldn't consider themselves to be leaders, make tools.
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#4It is sad to me that there seems to be a need to justify not using existing tools. Everyone should feel free to do their own thing within a community. This is a good example poorly expressed I my opinion.
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#5I had been wondering what leaders are, thanks!
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#6I had been wondering what leaders are, thanks!
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#7So writes someone who is not a leader. Leaders are organisers amongst many other things. Tool builders not so much..
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#8I understand building something novel (even if it's crazy), but this is just yet another framework using observables + redux pattern. It's been done to death, and imo I don't even think it's that good of a paradigm, in spite of it being everywhere these days.
To be a leader, you need to have at least some opinionated design decisions. This is just bandwagoning at its finest. (Bring back global objects!)
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#9"Leaders are tool builders" reads like someone trying to convince themselves of their own marketing hype. It's a generalisation that certainly doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Martin Luther King, for example, was a leader, and he's not known for his tool-crafting prowess. Some leaders create tools. Some people who aren't, or wouldn't consider themselves to be leaders, make tools.
A good number of people who call themselves leaders are in fact tools
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#10Leaders build systems that build tools.
They sometimes build the tools themselves if communication /finding help would take more effort and time than diy.
Any other deployment indicates waste (e.g. ego / needing to show off your awesomeness, or needing to upskill yourself because you aren't the right skill-shape for the job) or a company starved for capital that is sacrificing the long term for the short in order to survive.