[TUHS] how (not) to manage engineers (was: End of an era: the last ATC (USENIX Annual Technical Conference))

[Larry McVoy]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 08:47:54AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > My so called "authoritarian style" is nothing more than I was the
> > leader, I had to pick one style.
> 
> Right.  To hear you tell it, you preoccupied yourself with matters of
> style and let others worry about the harder problems of architecture and
> interfacing.  Maybe that was the right choice given your skill set and
> those of your staff.

My code is open source, if you read it and understand it, you'd see that 
you couldn't be more wrong.

I'll let my code and accomplishments speak for themselves, I'm retired,
Brandon.  I'm no longer in the business of trying to change minds, thank
god.

I'm reminded of the look of horror on the face of one of my fishing buddies,
when another buddy asked him if he didn't want to keep his finger in the
game, mentor some people, sit on some boards, etc.  He replied with something
like "I managed people for decades, the last thing I want from retirement
is more of that".  Indeed.  Amen.