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Slava Akhmechet
Personal blog · spakhm.substack.comstartupsprogrammingcareer
Slava Akhmechet's personal blog at spakhm.substack.com covers startups, programming and career. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How to Get Promoted (2020)”. 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
Slava Akhmechet's Substack covers career and company dynamics, including a post on how to get promoted. HN readers cite it on zero-sum behaviour in growing companies and on how large organisations work.
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.
Click to read Slava Akhmechet on Substack. Launched 10 months ago.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Get Promoted (2020)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-03
What Hacker News says?
Oh, I think people take a zero-sum approach in growing companies as well. Maybe even more so. https://spakhm.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted
Comment linking /p/how-to-get-promoted
on “Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software”Submitted How to Get Promoted (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis article makes the naive assumption that "what is making money" is an objective thing. Once a company reaches a certain size, basically once it has a financial planning department w/ different VPs owning their PnL, who is making money increasingly becomes a social construct. "how to get promoted" by spakhm is much more closer to how a large, successful org works IMO: https://spakhm.substack.com/p/how-to-get-prom…
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on “Knowing where your engineer salary comes from”Accepting a little exaggeration (“works” vs “works well”), for a segment, almost certainly. Particularly when they know that people like the commenter above are making sure it ultimately “works” by covering the incompetence of their colleagues. The comment you are replying to is in my view a superb observation of the challenge of maintaining quality against systemic pressures to appear to be performing. Most senior…
Comment linking /p/how-to-get-promoted
on “Protect your consciousness from AI”