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[–] emptyother 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That people (both the CTO and devs) eventually asking ME for suggestions. And acting on it even if on projects I've barely touched while working there. They been through multiple years of university and some have been through multiple jobs. I'm just a guy who knew a bit programming when I was hired as phone support 13 years ago.

I love the team though. It was just me and the CTO that did dev for many years, and now we are 7.

[–] cynar 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something I heard a while back. A leader, when getting advice, should be the dumbest person in the room. Not because they are dumb, but because the surround themselves with people even more intelligent then themselves.

By the sound of it, your working with people confident in their own skillset. They also know when an outside voice might have a useful perspective. You also likely have a significantly different experience base to them. To you, something it obvious, to them, it's really not.

I once saw a project (7 figure) that was being used regularly outside. It's only when the field techs got to play with it, one asked how waterproof it was? It wasn't; at all. The head engineer was so laser focused on the technical, he missed the woods for the trees.

[–] wolfpack86 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can still be the smartest person in the room, and play the dumbest. Ask questions, you might find new data points you needed to make a sounder decision.

[–] cynar 3 points 1 year ago

It's more intended as an aspiration. It can also be specialist intelligence. A salesman can know far more about what your customers will buy. An engineer can know your manufacturing chain inside and out. Both are weak in each other's area of knowledge. You can be weak in both, but leverage your intelligence to combine them.