One of my favorite operating norms we’ve adopted is “silence is dissent.”
If someone isn’t commenting on your work, presume they 1) disagree 2) don’t think it matters or 3) don’t understand until proven otherwise.
Silence rarely means alignment.
I want you to channel your inner psychologist and answer this question: what is going to happen when a new functionality is added to a Java class with 200 instance variables? Right, I agree, we will have 201 instance variables.
I have been managing people off and on for a long time now. Here are 10 open, vulnerable, painful mistakes I’ve made. Ouch. I’m sharing them so you don’t have to make them too. Thread >>