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Johanna Rothman
Personal blog · jrothman.com/blogcareerproductivitybusiness
Johanna Rothman's personal blog at jrothman.com covers career, productivity and business. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Johanna Rothman's blog for management and team-process writing, including flow efficiency, hiring, and managing people. Commenters call her blog a useful resource.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
https://www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager/2002/01/volume-5-n...
Comment linking /pragmaticmanager/2002/01/volume-5-number-2-project-toolbox-recognizing-the-bring-me-a-rock-schedule-game/
on “Why is everything so hard in a large organization?”Submitted Abandoning vs. Killing Projects as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThis problem exists because companies and management are overly concerned and focusing on resource efficiency rather than for flow efficient. http://www.jrothman.com/mpd/agile/2015/09/resource-efficienc...
Comment linking /mpd/agile/2015/09/resource-efficiency-vs-flow-efficiency-part-1-seeing-your-system/
on “Programmers are most likely to work from home”https://www.jrothman.com/books/behind-closed-doors-secrets-o...
Comment linking /books/behind-closed-doors-secrets-of-great-management/
on “Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?”I've got three good old fashioned book recommendations: * Johanna Rothman's "Hiring Geeks that Fit" ( https://leanpub.com/hiringgeeks ) does what it says on the tin - her blog is a useful resource too http://www.jrothman.com/blog/htp/ * Andy Lester's "Land the Tech Job You Love" ( http://petdance.com/book/ ) is written for job seeker - but is actually a good read for folk on the recruiting side too [bias warning: I…
Comment linking /blog/htp/
on “Must-Reads When Recruiting Programmers”I picked up two tech management books by Johanna Rothman. They had her on a podcast episode [1] a while back and she was extremely impressive. Halfway through one of the books and it's excellent. I've admired her blog [2] for years as well. [1] http://pragprog.com/podcasts/show/34 [2] http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/
Comment linking /blog/mpd/
on “Tell HN: The Pragmatic Bookshelf is having a 40% off sale”
