The cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful

Drawn from what Nat Friedman said

What this subject means

management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

What Nat Friedman actually said

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

In tension with

Engineering managers are a necessary evil for when things break down; 37signals tried them for two years and went back to leaving programmers alone.

Friedman says the cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful. Hansson says engineering managers are a necessary evil, that 37signals tried them for two years, and that the answer was to go back to leaving programmers alone. One wants managers closer to the work and the other wants fewer of them near it at all.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.