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Ben Kuhn

What Ben Kuhn thinks about management

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  1. Our readingNew managers are more likely to under-manage (be too hands-off) than to micromanage.

    Their wordsThe stereotype is that new managers often micromanage, but at Wave, I've noticed that new managers often err on the side of undermanaging, or being too hands-off, perhaps out of a desire to signal that they trust their reports.

    ↗Advice for time management as a managerbenkuhn.net 2nd of 2 in this piece

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  3. Our readingThe best project managers are usually not the strongest technical individual contributors.

    Their wordsThe best project-managers are often not the strongest technical ICs.

    ↗How I've run major projectsbenkuhn.net 2nd of 3 in this piece