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There have been a bunch I have witnessed. Novell, Wordperfect, Borland, Lotus, Sun Microsystems, & DEC (last too were mixed HW/SW).

Which are today's bunch that seem unstoppable that may disappear? Oracle? IBM? Facebook?

Back in the day Usenet had a wealth of interesting information. Then blogs for a while took over with RSS pings and google reader.

Now the noise seems to be higher than the signal for me in most forums. Where to go for the good intelligent discussion. HN? Twitter (too short)? Reddit subforums?

I've had various roles in IT for over 25 years and currently am CTO in a 15 person startup. I seem to have a reoccurring theme in my career that I am a times 5 employee and can do everything. Development, devops, linux guru, marketing, business analyst, project manager, dba, vendor management, finance (MBA,CFA) etc. Great as a micro startup. Once there is outside money I get blamed by incoming staff for over-control and under delegation and not being available (as I am 120% booked)

- When I leave a place normally they need to hire 3-5 people to replace me and I feel like a shitty manager as people say I don't delegate enough

- I burn out

- There is a lot of technical debt because we moved so fast to hit business goals

- I have my finger in many many projects and am the kind of business guru in all of them (understand business better than sales and IT as well)

- recruiting is hard because I want to try to find people like myself which are rare and expensive.

I have justified this to myself as I am saving the company money. Any suggestions on how to manage this and avoid getting painted as a poor manager and better balance the whole thing? Maybe I should get out of IT and just hire people? Maybe I should just run everything like projects - but if I don't put my head in the weeds I don't fully understand stuff?