Joshua Wehner jaw6

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Okay, here's my thing: what we tend to call "management" in our field is at least several separate skills. Mostly it's at least technical decision leadership, personnel management and project management. Expecting all of these skills to manifest spontaneously (let alone simultaneously) in one person is absurd.

The best orgs I've seen approach something I'd call a "growth mindset" (or maybe "support mindset"). They identify early potential, encourage (and meaningfully subsidize) skill development, and field-test to validate.

If I'm right about any of this (and, of course, I think I am), then the best growth-oriented orgs are making a huge mistake by strictly separating people into buckets labeled "manager" and "coder". If the act(s) of "management" require several separate skills, and growth requires identifying, leveling-up and field-testing these skills, the best orgs would find ways to divide management responsibilities among as many actors as possible.

I think we inherited an unhealthy idea of "manage

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Talks to Watch (Seriously, Do It!)

WAT

2012

Diana Bliss, Australian director and producer (b. 1954)
Joseph Curran, American basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
Don Fullmer, American boxer (b. 1939)
Keriman Halis Ece, Turkish pianist and model, Miss Universe 1932 (b. 1913)
Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)
Don Starkell, Canadian adventurer and author (b. 1932)

2013

Eddy Choong, Malaysian badminton player (b. 1930)

2006 (Saturday)
2007 (Sunday)
2008 (Monday)
2009 (Wednesday)
2010 (Thursday)
2011 (Friday)
2012 (Saturday)
2013 (Monday)
2014 (Tuesday)
2015 (Wednesday)

1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require 'csv'

	def flip; rand(2) == 1; end

	headers = ['year', '# male pres', '# female pres']
	rows = []
	250.times do \|j\|
	years = 2016
	men, women = 44, 0

	1. Click on the little picture or icon in the upper right and click "Sign out”.
	2. Then on the next screen click "Sign in with a different account”.
	3. Click “Remove”
	4. Click the X next to the account you want to sign out of.
	5. Click “Done”
	6. Congratulations now you are signed out.

	require 'minitest/autorun'

	class List
	include Enumerable
	def initialize()
	@notes = []
	yield @notes if block_given?
	end

	attr_reader :notes

	python_version = `python --version`
	# Python 2.7.1
	# => ""
	puts python_version
	# => nil