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Niels Bohrmann
Personal blog · nielsbohrmann.comproductivitywriting
Niels Bohrmann's personal blog at nielsbohrmann.com covers productivity and writing. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post to explain Price's law, the idea cited in discussions of management and on-call practice. The comments use it as a reference for their own points, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Freedom Through Systems
Most-linked posts?
- /prices-law/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-22
What Hacker News says?
This is Price's law in action: https://nielsbohrmann.com/prices-law/
Comment linking /prices-law/
on “Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired”Submitted Book Summary: "Essentialism" by Greg McKeown as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Devs need to be on call at three AM so that they suffer when their software fails. This is how you align developer motivation with operational motivation. As I mentioned in a peer response: Punitive management policies erode morale and result in retention only of those whom have no better options. See "Price's Law"[0]. 0 - https://nielsbohrmann.com/prices-law/
Comment linking /prices-law/
on “Breaking Up with On-Call”> I've tried at several companies to get dev-teams to prioritise things causing a lot of work for the ops-team, and nothing has worked as well as disbanding the ops team and putting the devs on-call. This is a leadership problem, not a development problem. If stakeholders prioritize resolving production issues and development teams do not address the objectives set forth, then there are bigger problems afoot. > Pain…
Comment linking /prices-law/
on “Breaking Up with On-Call”