alex-warren

Absolutely this. There's a lot of nice talk in this thread about empowering and enabling your team - but in my experience, that's not what companies are hiring tech leads and managers for. They're hiring you to get stuff shipped!

So understand your own manager's approach to management, and make sure you're aligned with it. Recently I was in a job where my own "servant leadership" style clashed quite badly with my boss, who was much more focussed on management "driving delivery" of projects. It did not end well.

If you encountered a problem like this when applying via Stack Overflow, can you let us know which job it was?

You can either reply here or email careers@stackoverflow.com. Thanks!

You're right. It's easy to forget how small a percentage of people actually use Twitter in the first place - but they often seem like they perceive themselves to be representative of everybody else. (Or worse, more important and "influential")

It's not too surprising really - the comments are similar to those I got on my blog post from a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5951536 - although it is strange how "conventional" a lot of HN commenters are, you'd think we were more of an ambitious entrepreneurial lot really...

Never said people don't need to work, but they should think about the kinds of work they want to do and the kind of life they want they lead, and creatively consider all the opportunities that are available to them. In fact that's pretty much all I'm saying, really.

I can't spot the bit in my post where I said I knew what the answer to poverty was - but is the only option for people in poverty really to wait for a promotion?

For people who are not in poverty, which I presume includes most of us here idly browsing Hacker News, do we descend down that hierarchy of needs as soon as we step off the conveyor belt?

I think there are more paths to fulfilment than you realise.

I'm aware of the hierarchy - not sure how it adds to or detracts from my post though? Do you think we inevitably progress up the pyramid as we get older - because I don't think age or progression up a career ladder is particularly correlated with fulfilment of those needs.

Surely they can still make the content available even if they're not allowed to promote it on the public services?

e.g. I can still buy Doctor Who DVDs in the UK, even if the BBC can't advertise them between programmes.

Balls? Hubris surely?