What Geoff Teehan thinks about management

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Chief Design Officer at Lightspark, and co-founder of the design firm Teehan+Lax, which Meta/Facebook acquired in 2015.

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1. 23 Sept 2026

   Our readingManagers who are not deep in IC work should worry, because there will not be much middle management; managers will build just like ICs.

   Their wordsI fear for like the managers who are not deep in IC work or like capable of good IC work because I think that there's not going to be a lot of middle management. I think it's going to be managers who build just like IC's

   ↗Geoff Teehan - Navigating change as a designeryoutube.com 15th of 15 in this recording