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Out Of Scope - #9

Bad leaders

Emily Kager
May 2, 2022
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Hi ya’ll!

Finally ran my marathon today (with my mom!) and the first 3/4 were going great. At mile 19 I started to really hit “the wall” and the last 7 miles were absolutely terrible. But we finished at 4:05 and I am so sore afterwards I think I might be retiring from marathons at this point.

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Someone: woah did you hear Phidippides ran 26.2 miles from Marathon to Athens and then dropped dead? Someone else: sick we should charge people hundreds of dollars to see if they can do it and survive
8:44 PM ∙ May 1, 2022
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Bad Leaders

Obviously the huge buzz this week was a certain purchase of a certain company. In totally unrelated thoughts:

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Bad leadership can ruin a good thing so quickly
3:33 AM ∙ Apr 29, 2022
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So what makes a bad leader in my mind? Just a few thoughts.

  • Their teams don't feel valued or appreciated

  • They don't listen to experts within their teams

  • They take credit for others' successes but put failures on singular people

  • They can't communicate a vision or inspire

  • They don't reward fairly

  • They don't treat their employees like full humans

  • They hand down deadlines they expect to be met without question or input

  • They don't invest in under-resourced teams or tools that would make teams' lives easier

  • They expect compliance and create environments of fear

  • They can't take criticism or adjust

And lastly, they might single out employees to criticize to their mob of millions of followers.

ICMYI

So if I make my coffee at home how long will it take me to buy a social media company?

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Elon Musk was able to buy Twitter because he doesn’t spend $5 on coffee everyday
11:58 AM ∙ Apr 25, 2022
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I had to google “former” and “latter” to make sure I was setting this up correctly, but yes I said what I said.

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Well you don’t want to whore yourself out and throw morals completely out the window… so maybe try the former?
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i wanna make more money but i'm not going back to school like.... it's either play with my p***y on camera or learn to code oh my god
3:30 PM ∙ Apr 29, 2022
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Yes, I think that is what they think. And any mention of “left” or “right” in comments or code will be completely misinterpreted. I can’t wait.

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they think they're gonna open up the code and it's gonna be like "if tweet = conservative then engage_stifle"
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1:44 PM ∙ Apr 26, 2022
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That’s it for this week folks! Have a great week and see ya next Sunday.

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peter
May 2, 2022

Also, good managers never herald praise on strong individual contributors because we all know they could only do the great things they do because those around them provided the safe space for them to work.

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