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13 points by lucidplot 2 months ago · 10 comments

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jgbuddy 2 months ago

Just don't work for non-technical people, problem solved. They're usually less successful anyways

  • thesumofall 2 months ago

    I‘m a technical exec and most of the advice rings true. Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen. Good leads will help with that and good engineers will come prepared

    • pan69 2 months ago

      > Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen.

      Should it not be the other way around?

      • fragmede 2 months ago

        Not if you're dogfooding. Technical goal: Add Redis. Business case: Quick search is slow. make it fast.

ale 2 months ago

If you’re a CTO who needs and engineering translator then maybe you’re the wrong person for the role.

  • aturek 2 months ago

    From TFA:

    > Many CTOs, like me, have a strong engineering background, and so I will understand some of the requests you make without needing further explanation.

  • jet98 2 months ago

    Amen

lucidplotOP 2 months ago

Non-paywalled version: https://www.annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/engineer-exec-translation...

KK7NIL 2 months ago

I was expecting this to be a transformer model fine-tuned to translate engineering to exec speak.

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