LessWrong (30+ Karma)

“Management is the Near Future” by jefftk


Listen Later

Programmers have
traditionally
been
contemptuous of
management:
if you're not writing code what are you even doing with your time? I
picked this up through general culture, and I remember my instinctive
shudder and recoil the first time my boss asked if I was interested in
management. As I got a better understanding of what managers were
doing, though, I came to appreciate how good ones could let us be much
more productive:

  • They gave us context on how the business worked, the role our

  • team played, what we were trying to do, and how our work fit into a
    larger whole.

  • They helped us figure out what to work on, breaking large

  • projects that were too big for any of us into approachable chunks.

  • They gave prompt feedback, helping us build mental

  • models of what good work [...]

    ---

    First published:

    May 17th, 2025

    Source:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rhLbcWna8npw8BavC/management-is-the-near-future

    ---

    Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    LessWrong (30+ Karma)By LessWrong


    More shows like LessWrong (30+ Karma)

    View all
    The Daily by The New York Times

    The Daily

    112,586 Listeners

    Astral Codex Ten Podcast by Jeremiah

    Astral Codex Ten Podcast

    130 Listeners

    Interesting Times with Ross Douthat by New York Times Opinion

    Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

    7,219 Listeners

    Dwarkesh Podcast by Dwarkesh Patel

    Dwarkesh Podcast

    531 Listeners

    The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

    The Ezra Klein Show

    16,096 Listeners

    AI Article Readings by Readings of great articles in AI voices

    AI Article Readings

    4 Listeners

    Doom Debates by Liron Shapira

    Doom Debates

    14 Listeners

    LessWrong posts by zvi by zvi

    LessWrong posts by zvi

    2 Listeners