> Building a team to operate based on your own personal preferences is selfish leadership... or even dictatorship.
Is there really anything wrong with that? Most managers manage their teams the way they're used to. Founders build their startups the way they're used to—based on their own experience and mistakes. Founders and managers don't adapt to the team's needs. Instead, they look for a team that will adapt to them.
It really depends on the people on the team. If they prefer to call each other and hear each other's voices, there's no need to push them to read emails. If you need people to read text, then you need a different kind of team.
Every team simply needs its own management style.
> As a manager, you should learn to change this about yourself rather than imposing your work style on your team.
I think we need a different approach here. I shouldn't have to change anything about myself, because we're slaves to our habits. I shouldn't force this on people who don't want to work this way. I just need to work with teams that are willing to work this way. And so far, I've always managed to find such teams and such people.
I think it depends on the person. For me, for example, text work best for any kind of question, no matter how complex. On the other hand, for simple questions, when I just want to chat, I'll opt for a call or meet in person.
There have been times when a founder was constantly on calls but allowed me to manage teams without them. He also continued to hold occasional calls with the team, but I wasn't present for those calls. I provided him with written progress reports. I didn't try to convince him to stop holding calls, and he didn't try to convince me that calls were mandatory. But such cases are rare.
I completely agree with you. I was just writing about my approach to project management and manage teams. It works perfectly for me. I suggest this approach at the companies where I work, but I don't recommend it to absolutely everyone. Everyone manages projects in their own way.
I don't want to live in a world ruled by AI agents. I sincerely hope that superintelligence won't emerge while I'm still alive. I don't want to live in this dystopia.
You have to create keys, copy the text into a file, and when editing the text, you need to update that file instead of the code. When removing the interface, don’t forget to delete the keys from the file. When moving the interface, you need to reorder the keys in the file. When changing the meaning of the text, you need to change the key name. The benefit of these actions is almost zero if the startup has no users.
Are you suggesting that we build a multilingual architecture right from the start of the startup? Without testing the hypothesis, without testing the market and demand?
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