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56 small one is whether you can fix your decision afterwards.  Any decision
57 can be made small by just always making sure that if you were wrong (and
58 you _will_ be wrong), you can always undo the damage later by
66 things that can't be undone.  Don't get ushered into a corner from which
74 thing you can backtrack on is a technical decision, and there
87    wasn't worthwhile after all can be hard on the poor lowly engineers
94 Happily, both of these reasons can be mitigated effectively by just
114 thing you can do as a manager is not to instill confidence, but rather a
117 Btw, another way to avoid a decision is to plaintively just whine "can't
151 The problem with #1 is that it's very easy to do, since you can say
157 you can call just about _anybody_ a d*ckhead, and you often _will_ be
177 sadly that you are one too, and that while we can all bask in the secure
217 Then make the developer who really screwed up (if you can find him) know
218 _in_private_ that he screwed up.  Not just so he can avoid it in the
220 importantly, he's also likely the person who can fix it.  Because, let's
234 first you can apologize for, the second one you won't really get the
246 internet, nobody can hear you being subtle". Use a big blunt object to
247 hammer the point in, because you can't really depend on people getting
250 Some humor can help pad both the bluntness and the moralizing.  Going
251 overboard to the point of being ridiculous can drive a point home
253 silly.  It can thus help get through the personal mental block we all
274 as you can.  Everybody will still think you're the person in charge. 
276 It's a great job if you can hack it.