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For the thing you're in charge of, what does it take to do a good job? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Was thinking about moderators, and how users always have plenty of opinions about what moderators are doing wrong, but seems like you see less commentary from the moderators themselves about what it takes to do a good job.

Which is probably true across any situation where there's a smaller number of leaders and a larger number of people in other roles.

Having experienced it, what does it take to lead a project, be a supervisor/boss, board member, pastor, dungeon master, legislator, etc?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Programmer:

Don't be a smart ass, write good code that others can improve.

Listen to everyone: others programmers, managers, clients, bosses, etc.

Follow all the procedures, don’t pretend you’re above anything.

Read books because the programming world is changing once or twice a year, and you don’t want to be the guy who is behind the current trends and best practices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you decide which books to read?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I pick either what I find interesting, what is recommended to me or what is relevant at the moment.