2024-07-04 from the editor of ~insom
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Well, I started at Internet Archive and have no regrets.
I'm pretty frazzled at the end of the day right now, but
that's from working and not from frustration.
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Unrelatedly, someone I know left Shopify and they somewhat
heavily hinted it was because they would make decisions and
then later someone extremely senior would come along and
directly change that decision. I have a lot of reasons for
leaving but that is definitely one of them.
I think the model I've been looking for is sovereignty -- as
a leader you should be responsible for what happens in your
domain but also you should be the arbiter of it. Being on
the hook for a department but then not being allowed to make
the final decisions sucks and is unworkable. You can do it
for a bit, and there's money in that, but eventually nobody
ends up getting what they want. And if the people above you
don't like that, they should tell _you_ and not the people
who report to you.
I'm finding it easier to be less annoyed at Shopify now that
I'm working somewhere else full-time, but I'll probably
continue to be frustrated by these things for a long time.
