Taking Breaks from Superheroing

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Team - I have’t written anything last week because 1. Vacation - Disneyland FTW; 2. Unwell - Covid FTL -AGAIN!:(- and 3. How do you top the 14th principle?

You don’t, which is both depressing and encouraging as most of the human work always is. Repeating the same common sense principles ad nausea is soul-sapping without a doubt, but accepting the need for the ennui is unfortunately part of the purpose.

I was musing about techies come people-people and how they experience the push and pull of doing something to better the lives of their colleagues when that was not meant to be their job description.

The Superheroes I keep harping on about who started on the 1s and 0s side, the programming side, the technical side where you’re implicitly promised the least interaction possible with the rest of humanity as long as you keep in the zone, head down and keyboard pounded. The coders that worked out understanding the intricacies of the humanity in the team is unavoidable. The product managers or owners who would have gladly never picked up a call but now realised they have to facilitate and probe and ask and pull at the least agreeable of team members to be truly present and engaged before anything will move. The developers come team leads and then multiple team leads or even CTOs and with them the next level from the “organising stuff and architecting only” CTOs to the “damn, my job is figuring out these people, everything else can wait” CTOs.