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I consider a message from dang as a badge of honour.
I totally understand the tone of my messaging is rather incongruous with the ethics of this site but I hope you can believe there is a light that shines deep within which actually cares and nurtures a deep love for our community and everyone in it.
I'm not sure if you can call it tough love but it's a mask for a sincere affection. I will try a different tack and I am grateful to your words.
It's our Achilles heel that we don't recognize our own selves and don't always see ourselves in others, we use the voice we talk to ourselves with to speak to the world around us
It's like I'm trying to solve the hardest computer problem on earth and I've been banging my head on my desk for an eternity. I think we can all relate to that feeling.
It's good of you all to keep it real for all of us, goodbye.
We all know that the systems we design are only as good as the organizations we build to design them yet we keep repeating tired management tropes that ought to be retired and relegated to the /dev/null of history.
It occurred to me recently that the main difference between leadership and management is that one in proactive whereas the other is reactive by its inherent nature and we are setting ourselves up for constant backwardness by our reliance on the latter in the absence of the former.
Your thoughts are very gladly welcome, I'm sure there are a variety of opinions on the subject but I'd be interested to hear from a software professional's point of view than a management professional's as the former are rarely heard in this realm.