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You Are Doomed to Fail as a Team Lead

https://kwakubiney.github.io/posts/You-re-Doomed-To-Fail-As-A-Team-Lead/
2•kwakubiney•2h ago

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weinzierl•1h ago
"Sitting at this position makes me realise that most processes run on experiments and are as trial and error as it gets."

The worst part is that everyone expects your confidence.

kwakubiney•1h ago
Feigning confidence might even be the hardest part of this all.
al_borland•1h ago
I moved up to a team lead and then decided to shrink back down for a lot of the reasons mentioned. While the team was successful, and practically ran itself with all the system I put in place, the weight of it never went away and I didn't like it. The job also became a lot more about politics, which I had no interest in. I sometimes wonder if I should have stuck it out to see if I got over the hump and hit some kind of stride, but there were so many people I talked to who regretted their moves into management, that I suppose it's good I stepped back when I did.

One of the harder parts for me was giving feedback. Certain people craved it, but I didn't want to seem like I was nitpicking or making them afraid to come to me, so I let stuff slide that I would have fixed if it was me doing the work. This kind of stuff was easier when I was just part of the team. I'd nitpick our presentations, mentioning things were a single pixel out of alignment. Eventually other people started noticing and calling out this little issues as well, which was good. But I felt less comfortable doing that in a leadership position, because I'd sound like a nagging boss instead of someone who just wants to make sure we're presenting ourselves well. I struggled internally with this a lot. It was probably ultimately what broke me.

Texts from Suspect in Charlie Kirk Shooting Offer Insight into a Motive

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/kirk-shooting-suspect-motive-messages.html
1•Redoubts•42s ago•0 comments

Machine Learning vs. Human Learning: They're Not Alike [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04NjWFl3X74
2•LordNibbler•9m ago•0 comments

Southern Television broadcast interruption (1977)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption
2•sys_64738•13m ago•1 comments

SK On's breakthrough all-solid-state EV batteries will arrive ahead of schedule

https://electrek.co/2025/09/16/sk-ons-all-solid-state-ev-batteries-will-arrive-ahead-of-schedule/
2•breve•13m ago•0 comments

From Alphabet to Visa, US giants drive euro-denominated bond surge

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/alphabet-visa-us-giants-drive-euro-denominated-bond-surg...
4•nabla9•18m ago•0 comments

Dear HN. Please make the Hacker News header stick to the top of the browser

3•cbeach•19m ago•0 comments

Rails World 2025 Opening Keynote – David Heinemeier Hansson [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwzWzC7gUA
3•marcofloriano•22m ago•0 comments

Rust vs. Go

https://blog.howardjohn.info/posts/rust-vs-go/
2•ingve•26m ago•0 comments

Spec-driven development with AI: Get started with a new open-source toolkit

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/spec-driven-development-with-ai-get-started-with-a-ne...
3•ibobev•28m ago•0 comments

Global wildfire paradox: Human impacts worsen even as total burned area declines

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-global-wildfire-paradox-human-impacts.html
5•PaulHoule•31m ago•2 comments

What do people use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/seven-things-we-learned-from-openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-us...
4•jnord•32m ago•0 comments

Some Publishers Clearing House winners are facing the end of 'forever' prizes

https://apnews.com/article/publishers-clearing-house-bankruptcy-forever-winners-e7db7f8806b82a526...
3•c420•32m ago•1 comments

Diving into Spec-Driven Development with GitHub Spec Kit

https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/spec-driven-development-spec-kit
2•ibobev•33m ago•0 comments

Why Deadlines? Why That Deadline?

https://www.cybadger.com/why-deadlines-why-that-deadline/
2•mooreds•34m ago•0 comments

RIP my minimal phone setup

https://manuelmoreale.com/rip-my-minimal-phone-setup
2•zdw•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Swift lib for parsing structured JSON streamed from LLMs

https://github.com/itruf/PartialJSON
1•itruf•37m ago•0 comments

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/
3•jimrandomh•39m ago•1 comments

Work with the Garage Door Up

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zCMhncA1iSE74MKKYQS5PBZ
2•mihau•45m ago•0 comments

2025 Fall Foliage Map and Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast

https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map
2•ohjeez•46m ago•0 comments

Music Tech Startups Focused on Fans, Artists, and the Future of Music

https://emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/a-curated-guide-to-80-music-startups
1•ohjeez•48m ago•0 comments

The Trauma You Need to Learn

https://staysaasy.com/management/2025/09/14/educational-trauma.html
2•Garbage•50m ago•0 comments

Things I said as a manager part 6: Leveling up hurts

https://reactiverobot.com/writing/leveling-up.html
2•reactiverobot•51m ago•0 comments

The California-Washington tech fight heats up

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/16/the-california-washington-tech-fight-heats-up-00567309
2•alephnerd•51m ago•0 comments

Braille generator for 3D printing written in OpenSCAD

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6463849
1•lucasoshiro•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I generate a week of posts from one YouTube video

https://yttomermaid.xyz/
1•xnslx•57m ago•0 comments

Painfully Correct Cliches

https://kupajo.com/painfully-correct-cliches
1•kolyder•58m ago•0 comments

Swift 6.2 advances the language meaningfully

https://victorwynne.com/swift-6-2/
5•curtblaha•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Budgero – a privacy-first budgeting app

https://budgero.app
1•toma-bomba•1h ago•1 comments

Why one of the most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/16/song-chun-zhu-why-one-of-the-worlds-m...
4•Chris2048•1h ago•2 comments

Making Sense of Postgres Query Plans

https://www.jacobreed.dev/blog/Explain
1•jreed91•1h ago•0 comments