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So you're a manager now


Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on.

Your instinct (especially under pressure) is going to be to fall back on the skills that got you this far in your career: to jump in, write the code, fix the bug, save the fuckin’ day. Occasionally a manager will need to dive in and do the ground-level work but that is the exception and not the rule because the reality is you have different critical responsibilities now. If you expect yourself to have all the answers you’re setting yourself up for a heaping dose of reality check the very first time you run into a scenario you’re unprepared for.

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