Ironically, this article against procrastination may itself be a form of procrastination. The author's current company seems to have fallen on hard times; its Glassdoor reviews indicate executive mismanagement. A situation that would encourage most managers, especially a CTO, to procrastinate.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meditation-app-calm-lays-off-20...

Don't get me wrong though, I'm a big believer in writing as therapy. This article just rubs me (maybe incorrectly) as parlaying self-therapy into advice-giving.

Potentially in this case, the fact that you interpreted the self-therapy as potential advice is a testament to the author's ability to write, at the very least.

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive, not that you claimed for them to be. That being said, If anyone has links to topically similar management content, I'd love to read it. Here's one case:

https://erikbern.com/2021/07/07/the-data-team-a-short-story....

Isn't it baseline? Seems more difficult to find a tech company that didn't have layoffs this year.

All the examples he gave can go both ways. Hindsight is 20/20

> They’d be better served by addressing the cultural or skill-gaps culminating in the reliability problems instead of trying to solve it themselves

We might end up with things like adding type safety to a dynamic language, relational operation to a document based database

> Founders feel trapped by slog of meeting financial projections, and want to reorganize company efforts towards increased innovation without connecting dots to how it will meet the financial projections.

If not, we might end up like kodak, missing the digital imaging era.

> They’d be better served by holding their managers accountable or empowering their People team

Or we are increasing our management overhead instead of getting things done.

All I'm saying is, we really can't tell. There more experience we have, the more likely we can tell. But never as surely as hindsight. Be open, self-aware, humble, and keep learning is the best we can do.

I think the key here is to look for long term patterns and address them. Once in a while snaking is even healthy.

+1

This is, in general, my experience of others and of myself. For me, the key is to recognise the signs in oneself that indicate brooding anxiety or situations that are conflicting, of opinion, of strategy, of personality.

Lists and critical introspection are effective ways for me to manage myself and help others, if possible and if necessary, to help avoid repeated failures and ill-considered decisions.

It’s not easy, people fall easily into nostalgia, whilst ignoring complexity and consequences.