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by jgbuddy 148 days ago
Just don't work for non-technical people, problem solved. They're usually less successful anyways
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I‘m a technical exec and most of the advice rings true. Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen. Good leads will help with that and good engineers will come prepared
> Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen.

Should it not be the other way around?

Not if you're dogfooding. Technical goal: Add Redis. Business case: Quick search is slow. make it fast.