Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Everyone Who Works Here is Weird”.
Hey Luke, I’ve recently found myself falling into a VP of engineering position. With my company I mean lucky: congrats just fell into it, yeah man – I wouldn’t have bothered doing all this anyway, carry on how have you handled difficult or eccentric Personalities in your new role as CTO, you tell me Dan. No, I uh badly wow. You need some training bud, it’s a good thing that that mic is on a stand, because otherwise it would be on the ground um.
Ah man, I don’t know, I don’t think it’s really been all that different than uh the management that I do in other departments. I feel like our entire company kind of uh attracts a relatively like similar type of person. They’Re saying we have a type yeah kinda um, so like yeah, I don’t. I don’t think it’s been all that different um. I know it’s a very boring answer, but yeah when you, when you have the type of people that we attracted this company in my opinion, are very motivated, very curious, very driven, um, a little quirky, maybe distractible, because they’re 80ding onto every single possible thing. All the time, because everything’s interesting and wow I’m gon na do all the stuff.
So you know it’s a lot of trying to make sure that people stay focused on the the meat and potatoes, the the things that we have to get done, but also giving them some time to do the things that are fun so that they stay motivated and Driven, It’s Not Unusual in the tech space to find people who prefer computers to people yeah. So sometimes you got ta. We got the devs nodding. Sometimes you got ta drag those people out, though, because it’s it’s also good and I don’t want to force it all. The time, but it is good for, like team unity, reasons and all these weird boring manager, things that I can say, and sometimes that can make really tough conversations, even tougher um, you know. Sometimes it can actually this kind of segues us pretty well into a topic that we do have to talk about this week, but we’ll we’ll do it in a little bit, but sometimes it can lead to communication challenges um, because you know we don’t we don’t really Have formal training on like you know how to talk to people practically how to talk to people internally, how to talk to people externally how to practice yeah pretty much anything we’re working on it? Okay, we’re working on it! No, it’s true, um, and, and so you know, you end up with uh, you end up with a really, I would say our team is the spice of life.
You know, there’s a there’s, a ton of variety. We don’t have any NPCs here, no [, Laughter, ], very true yeah. We have a lot of people who kind of look like NPCs like the generic bearded white dude is very overrepresented here: yeah yeah Dan, you didn’t even point the camera to the guy.
Next to you: well sorry, I don’t have to oh, I get it. I get it, but but you should do it anyway, though uh. What is it this? One yeah yeah look more generic wow, bearded white dudes, there’s four of us in a room, fantastic and it’s a podcast, the white perspective. Okay, what are we talking about? Let’S do literally anything else other than this. Now, I’m just not gon na say anything. I’M just gon na leave it uh right there, anyways, yeah management, stuff, really didn’t change.
Much um same type of people in in you know, interests and skill sets and stuff like that. Um just focus on different things and it’s been good. .