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		ethbr1 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left... Folksy management sayings inevitably compel me to innocently ask inconvenient questions. Because either (a) the person using them really knows their shit and will have a response or (b) they're just full of shit.

osigurdson 9 months ago [–]

Usually the response is either to just double down "this is the most important thing that we do" (with no further explanation), or anger: "Idiot! How can you not possibly know what I mean to be committed like the pig in my story".

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