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How to treat the people that built the system you work on
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How to treat the people that built the system you work on

You are infinitely smarter than they are, better-looking, and taller - probably

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David Tate
Feb 26, 2024
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You have been hired to work on a system. The system has problems. The usual problems:

  • it doesn’t work all the time

  • they want it to handle more work without slowing down or failing

  • they want to add new t…

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