Dusting off some old replies. The TL;DR is: reduce information asymmetry, expose thought processes and align (everyone knows what to do, what not to do, why, and how we got there). People should send in pull requests to your thought processes. They should be able to take decisions based on their model of your thought processes, which you can help them build. Increase leverage and fire yourself every day.
The posts that are more relevant to you:
Remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align:
On taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable:
What are you trying to accomplish? Say it's a start-up or a profitable business, you need to test your hypotheses, validate/invalidate the idea, etc. The risk is not technical, it's a business risk, so you ought to get to the truth as fast as possible, and you get there using what you're most productive in. The goal is to discover if it's "desirable, feasible, viable", not to optimize prematurely.
>Say, i want to build tcp client for check connection and can deploy anywhere without install any dependency
Why? What are you trying to accomplish? Where do these constraints come from? Where does the no dependency constraint come from? Where does deploying anywhere come from? Where does checking the connection come from? What is the real problem you are trying to solve?
These questions are to avoid the XY problem, to avoid the trap of solutionism, and to get to the "Job to Be Done".
Someone once asked me how to solder a thick copper wire to a thin steel plate. When I asked him why, I listened in disbelief as he answered that the fuse blew out and that he was going to get a thicker wire and solder it so it doesn't blow out. His solution comes from an incorrect diagnosis of the problem at hand, and he asked me about the solution framed as problem, not the true, root, problem.
One of my friends has loaned some books to my other friend's brother at the beginning of the year.
The year being over, I asked my friend if his brother is done with the books. He got back to me saying that his brother asked if I was in 1st year, and that he was surprised when he learned that I graduated and still studying.
I had a chance to talk with him yesterday (well, this morning at 4 AM), we were seven people at my friend's.
I said that not working harder than I did back in college is a mistake I am paying the price for today. I urged him to work harder than he is for he will later regret it with hot tears. I said that right now, he's in a cocoon where nothing is expected of him except to study, which he should do vigorously, relentlessly, and constantly. He has no other obligations or pressure other than to learn and become excellent. I said if I was asked to kill ten people to be able to go back a decade, I would kill an additional two to show how thankful I am for the bargain.
I tried to convey the message because he didn't fully grasp that time wasted is never, ever coming back. That once it's gone, it is forever. That it is the only thing we own only for its very duration, not a second more.
I hope he understood. There was a fleeting expression of realization after the chuckles that I hope will grow.
If I disappear, what will happen:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008223
Communication, alignment:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177646
Useful things for the team and product that add leverage:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808439
Communication with the team (link, and subsequent clarification):
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598632
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614372
Fractal Communication: communication that can penetrate several layers of management and be relevant to people with different profiles and skillsets:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123017
Product development:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841
Management involvement as a spectrum:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715971
Giving a damn:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356222
Researching topics:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922120
Keeping up with a firehose of information:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147502
Tips to learn from videos:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710623
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723586
Remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179539
Less relevant to you, included nonetheless...
Understanding codebases:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100
Testing pipelines, scaffolding, issue templates:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591067
Making the most out of meetings and leveraging your presence:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873103
Consulting, understanding the problem your "client", who can be your manager, has:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611
Product, architecture, and impact on the team:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365
Onboarding new hires to a codebase, what if it were you, improve code:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860716
Reduce information asymmetry, template for taking minutes of meetings to dispatch to the team:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427886
On taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209518
More meeting notes. Reply to a person who had trouble talking in corporate meetings:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323660