Profound CTO Learnings of 2021

Drivel. The whole purpose of this is for Jakob Reiter, whoever that is, to highlight what a great leader he is. It's all about upward mobility, and having a showpiece like this is all part of the act. I don't know Jakob, but I know from reading this he is probably untrustworthy and will do whatever is necessary to succeed. These types have evolved over the years... in the 80s, they were sharp and cutthroat. Afterall, that's what was in vogue. Now they've adapted to today's cultural zietgeist, making sure that everyone knows how forward-thinking they are, how hip they are to inclusivity, yadda-yadda.. It's just a game that these inauthentic types are very good at playing. Well, we all share the same dirt in the end, my friend.

>With that, we remind ourselves that if we repeat part of the source code it should be abstracted and not repeated. We do this because we hope that by that we later have a central place to change things in case something happens. We want to reduce redundancy.

This doesn't demonstrate a deep understanding of DRY to me, which is not a great sign for a CTO.

While I acknowledge that English is a living language and subject to change over time, I refuse to accept that "learnings" is a real word.

I'm going to go against the grain of the comments so far: (1) the title on HN is misstated / way too lofty but there is some [non-technical] substance here, (2) the title on HN says "CTO" while this person's title in the article is "Partner & Head of IT", (3) "Profound" is nowhere to be found in the title or article itself.

A more fitting title for HN might be: Some zen-inspired reflections on 2021 from a leader of an incubator / agency.

That said, I think the post could have benefitted from editing. It's a bit stuff and wordy... and could have probably communicated the same info more effectively at ~1/3 of its current length.

I don’t know about this guy but I think it should be required that if one of these “leaders” writes about “leadership” to also hear from the people they are leading. I have been in several presentations where some manager would brag about their leadership secrets where I knew that reality was completely different.

Seems to me that “leadership” is full of self promoters and it doesn’t really matter if their stuff actually works as long it’s written nicely.

The actual title of the article is "Leadership Learnings of 2021" - I don't know if the poster was being sarcastic or not in the editorialization of the title, but it definitely comes off that way and I think is leading to some of the mean-spirited comments. @dang