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Mike Kilbane's avatar

Great thoughts! In their book, "Primed to Perform", Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi talks about the tendency to blame people, rather than the systems or environment they operate in -- calling it our "Blame Bias". They do a great job of describing both the dynamics of the situation, as well as the types of leadership decisions and behaviors that result.

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Mike Fisher's avatar

Awesome, thanks Mike! I'll check out that book.

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Corey Olsen's avatar

Great article. Has me thinking about debugging performance issues in a software stack. What are some good resources to read up on systems and or software engineering management?

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Mike Fisher's avatar

Hi Corey, for software engineering management I highly recommend Camille Fournier's The Manager's Path. For systems books there is everything from The Phoenix Project to Google's Site Reliability Engineering.

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Steve Mason's avatar

Great article! Reminds me of Charlie Mungers adage “you get what you incentivize”

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