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Lindsay Holmwood
Personal blog · fractio.nlcareerprogrammingsystems
Lindsay Holmwood writes Fractional, a personal blog at fractio.nl about career, programming and systems. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Becoming a manager is a Career Change *not* a promotion”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lindsay Holmwood's posts on engineering management, especially "Not a promotion, a career change" and a series on what he wished he had been told as a new manager.
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.
by Lindsay Holmwood
Most-linked posts?
- Becoming a manager is a Career Change *not* a promotion4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-09-22
What Hacker News says?
Read this set of articles: "Things I wish I was told when I became a manager" http://fractio.nl/management/
Comment linking /management/
on “Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?”Submitted Applying cardiac alarm management techniques to your on-call as a story · 5 points
HN discussion"Just because you don't have the training doesn't mean you won't be an awesome manager." While this is true, it's worth remembering that management isn't a promotion, it's a career change: http://fractio.nl/2014/09/19/not-a-promotion-a-career-change...
Comment linking /2014/09/19/not-a-promotion-a-career-change/
on “Ask HN: What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?”Submitted It's not a promotion – it's a career change as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is my favourite article on this topic https://fractio.nl/2014/09/19/not-a-promotion-a-career-chang...
Comment linking /2014/09/19/not-a-promotion-a-career-change/
on “Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers”Submitted Becoming a manager is a Career Change *not* a promotion as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> The biggest misconception engineers have when thinking about moving into management is they think it’s a promotion. > Management is not a promotion. It is a career change. http://fractio.nl/2014/09/19/not-a-promotion-a-career-change...
Comment linking /2014/09/19/not-a-promotion-a-career-change/
on “Let’s have no managers, instead of managers with no engineering experience”Submitted Applying cardiac alarm management techniques to your on-call as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Management is not a promotion. It is a career change as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Management Skills for New Leaders as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS in government: risks, myths, and misconceptions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CD for Infrastructure Services as a story · 1 points
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