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Comment by angarg12 | Hacker News Reader

The vast majority of literature in management (definitely in the tech sector) is essentially a long form opinion of a single person.

I personally only started to take more seriously the writing of people who a) have been managing for a long while successfully, and b) regularly sync up with other managers so that their pieces aren't a sample size of 1.

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Because I apparently have an infinite appetite for masochism: do you have any recommendations for authors you've read and liked?

I’m not the OP, but here’s my reading list: https://tuckerconnelly.com/management-leadership

Will Larson [1] is a favourite of mine. Some parts os his writing are still "one person's opinion" but

a) has credentials to back up his opinions

b) often he triangulates with other people to give more weight to his arguments. For example for Staff Engineer he did interviews with many Staff+ ICs

c) is very humble and open about what he doesn't know or what is "the best of my knowledge"

Overall I give him more credit than any internet rando.

[1] https://lethain.com/

Can you give us some links to writings you found particularly inspiring?

My favourite article on technical delivery is so simple and obvious https://www.bti360.com/what-ive-learned-in-45-years-in-the-s... I use it to get people to focus on the basics which is more consequential that grand initiatives and metrics

Please also give the things you did not find inspiring but did find useful after trying them out. I think one of the flaws of modern management is that it often ends up being about the feelings of managers. I'd expect there to be significant negative correlation between the things that feel inspiring upon reading versus those that are practically helpful to the work and the people being managed.

Longer reply above, but I really like https://lethain.com/

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