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Dale H. Emery
Personal blog · dhemery.com/articlescareerproductivity
Dale H. Emery's personal blog at dhemery.com covers career and productivity. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Resistance as a Resource (2001)”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Dale H. Emery's essays on personal and team change, such as 'Resistance as a Resource'. HN readers link them as reflective pieces on work and burnout; one commenter called one post deep wisdom.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Resistance as a Resource (2001)3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-07-17
- /articles/managing_yourself_through_change/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-14
What Hacker News says?
This post for me contains deep wisdom: https://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/
Comment linking /articles/resistance_as_a_resource/
on “Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?”Submitted Resistance as a Resource (2001) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis is the correct answer. For an additional perspective see this classic: https://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/
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on “Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?”Submitted Untangling Communication (2001) [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJerry Weinberg has a chapter on burnout in one of his books [0]. He refers to the idea of 'the oxygen mask', making sure you've taken care of yourself so you have resources from which to give. He talks about how having a long list of 'shoulds' can wear you down, and how competence can lead to collecting more responsibilities than you can manage. He then places burnout at the foreign element stage of the Satir Change…
Comment linking /articles/managing_yourself_through_change/
on “Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming?”Submitted Resistance as a Resource (2001) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTwo issues jump out at me: 1 ) It’s unclear to me why Microsoft, a leading software firm with distributed offices, should be considered representative of “information workers”. Contrary to this study of a digitally inter-connected firm, finding their preferred connection patterns and rhythms took a hit before adapting (see #2 below), most enterprises had no established digital connection patterns or rhythms and desp…
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on “The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers”Submitted Resistance as a Resource (2001) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's sometimes very hard to create "universally" portable ideas - the metaphor or story that's going to get everybody to understand and communicate an idea. You often need to bring people together a bit first so that all the groups can actually see the common ground - even if they've not reached it yet. For example - I have some fairly strong beliefs, based on the teams that I've worked with, on how design/UX and de…
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on “Portable Ideas”Submitted Resistance as a resource as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMany more beyond this but these are my for sures. People / Soft Skills: * How to win friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie * Secrets of Consulting - Gerald Weinberg * Peopleware - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister * Nurtured by Love - Shinici Suzuki * Turn the Ship Around! - David Marquet * Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss http://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/ http://dhemery.com/articles/man…
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on “Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies”Submitted Questions to Explore Problems [pdf] as a story · 1 points
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