Matt Yglesias: belief

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…What did you learn about yourself from your stint working as an actual manager? Oh, man. [laughs] It’s so easy when you do your job to get mad at your managers, and to then make the subsequent turn to like, “All these people have no fucking idea what they’re doing.” But it turns out it is challenging to manage. It involves real skills. It stressed me out. I don’t think I did a great job of it. You get a good appreciation for the idea that, even though it might be hard to measure or to see externally, there is real skill being deployed in middle management. And the meta management skill that must be . . . I didn’t reach this level, but the managers who have to pick the other managers — they are doing something that must be, I think, really hard to even conceptualize, but must have incredible influence on the success of really big organizations. Now, blogging was very important for your career it seems — helped you a lot. Why is it that blogging doesn’t seem like it’s coming back right now if it was useful to you, useful to me, useful to many other people? Is it Facebook? Is it Twitter? Is it something else? Why not?…

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