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Repair: How Great Managers Learn From Mistakes

2025-08-22

Managers will make mistakes; it's inevitable. This article emphasizes the importance of "repair," proactively acknowledging mistakes, taking responsibility, and making amends. Instead of striving for perfection, focus on repairing relationships with your team. The author uses personal anecdotes and observations to illustrate how to repair mistakes through specific steps: being specific about the error, focusing on the impact on others, changing behavior, and consistent improvement. Ultimately, managers who are good at repair build stronger trust and improve team performance.

(terriblesoftware.org)

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The AI Coding Revolution: At What Cost to Joy?

2025-04-23

This article explores the author's concern about the loss of joy in software development due to AI assistance. While acknowledging the productivity gains, the author laments the diminishing experience of flow state – that deep immersion and satisfaction once derived from crafting code. AI tools, while efficient, create a more passive, curatorial role, potentially leading to highly productive yet unfulfilled developers. The author suggests a need to redefine joy in an AI-augmented world, advocating for intentional preservation of manual coding to maintain happiness and creativity.

(terriblesoftware.org)

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High-Performing Teams Embrace Conflict, Not Harmony

2025-04-12

High-performing teams aren't defined by surface-level harmony, but by psychological safety—the ability to openly discuss and productively resolve conflict. True safety isn't about avoiding conflict; it's about allowing challenging ideas to make the team stronger. The author argues that healthy teams flag issues early, debate thoroughly, focus on the problem, not the person, and turn mistakes into learning opportunities. Conversely, "nice" teams lacking open communication harbor hidden problems, ultimately leading to failure. Building this environment involves: leaders showing vulnerability, setting debate ground rules, and rewarding those who raise challenging questions. Ultimately, a psychologically safe team, while experiencing conflict, effectively resolves issues, avoids resentment, and ultimately delivers higher-quality work. The final point highlights that unquestioned code often crashes in production – the same applies to ideas.

(terriblesoftware.org)

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Your Greatest Strength Is Also Your Greatest Weakness?

2025-04-11

A manager shares how he handles the duality of engineers: their greatest strengths often turn out to be their greatest weaknesses. Using personal experiences and team management examples, the article points out that the outstanding qualities of excellent engineers can be both advantages and disadvantages in different contexts. He offers three suggestions: frankly discuss the duality of engineers in daily communication, clearly point out the advantages and disadvantages of their characteristics in different contexts, and use the tension between team members' characteristics to improve efficiency. The ultimate goal is not to create perfect engineers, but to help them understand themselves and learn to adjust their behavior according to the situation, giving full play to their strengths.

(terriblesoftware.org)

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Seven Papers That Changed Computer Science History

2025-01-23

This article revisits seven influential papers that shaped modern computer science, ranging from Turing's theory of computation to Google's PageRank algorithm. Each paper's core ideas and significance are explored, with links provided for further learning. A captivating journey through the history of technology.

(terriblesoftware.org)

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