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"A good technical leader breaks a plan down to 3 month chunks." @andrew
And that's a wrap for the #DjangoCon US main conference!
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"There's also sort of another option which is working for a product company that builds developer products." --Elizabeth
On the big benefits of starting in a consultancy
Julia: "You can try lots of different projects, right? It's always new problems, new people."
Frank: "Yeah, you never get bored and then you start to see that the kinds of problems that happen with this industry are really similar to the same kinds of problems that happen in this industry with this one little extra legal or regulatory or societal twist to it."
"It was not a rough transition [starting a business] except for I picked 2007 to start a business." --Frank
"I still code most days even though I'm managing." --Frank
"You do lose a little bit of political sway [as an individual contributor]." @andrew #DjangoCon
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"Can you escape management in some sense by being an IC forever? Yes, I guess you could do." @andrew
"Your input is not just being able to directly say 'ok this project might be a problem.' It's when you get other people to the point where they can see the project may be a problem." --Charles
"Sometimes because I've been around a little bit now, I can sort of see a pothole coming, you know, either a technical pothole or maybe a political one or maybe a legal one or a financial one, and say ok, there's a pothole coming up" --Charles