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.