Episode 69: Aye Thu (Slack)

Authority Issues

In this episode, Kendall, rachel, and Aye talk about:

• Being an Old (Java 1.0 certified!)
• Realizing he used to be "hard to work with"
• Transitioning away from electrical engineering and into enterprise software
• The idea that management is where people who can't build software anymore "go to die"
• Starting to understand that there is more to life than writing Java code
• Moving to Las Vegas and having his life changed by the Zappos culture
• Parades!
• Learning how to be a better manager from a good team
• How knowing the wrong things to do is not the same as knowing the right things to do
• Starting a company...to help managers do a better job (at 1:1s)!
• Discovering that marketing and sales is hard and that most places don't invest in management tools :(
• Finding a desirable culture and good work-life balance at Slack
• Wishing he had a good leadership mentor earlier in his work life
• The fact that the immature asshole developer is a pretty common archetype
• Enjoyment of kettlebell exercises and a whole new world for Kendall

You can find Aye on LinkedIn and on Twitter as @damnitjim ;)

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3