This is a newsletter about the practice of management. I’ve been a manager for more than ten years, and management fascinates me more now than it did when I started. First, I want to explain why I chose the name Management for Anarchists. It came to me after I heard Noam Chomsky
This is great, thank you Rafe! I have a draft of a post I started a few months ago tentatively titled "interviewing for anarchists" where I was thinking about the fact that interviewing someone gives you a small part of that managerial power -- you're not firing someone, but you might be making a choice about whether they get a job or not, which is a category of control you don't have when you're writing code. I don't think we (as an industry) think about that enough. Anyway I'm psyched to read your newsletter!
>there were always some people who could fire other people
and there's usually some people no one can fire
This is great, thank you Rafe! I have a draft of a post I started a few months ago tentatively titled "interviewing for anarchists" where I was thinking about the fact that interviewing someone gives you a small part of that managerial power -- you're not firing someone, but you might be making a choice about whether they get a job or not, which is a category of control you don't have when you're writing code. I don't think we (as an industry) think about that enough. Anyway I'm psyched to read your newsletter!