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No, manager can't prevent you from switching to any other team or even start a team on your own. The idea behind this is that it ensures that talent naturally gravitates towards teams with most impact. Managers have no say!
Reviews are written by your peers (that usually includes your manager).
Reviews need to quote actual success metrics to prove the impact you had...just writting "bob is dope" won't take you far :)
Too much complexity for a world that's moving to mobile clients that can't be active peers of the network.
Some people are simply better at raising money than shipping product.
Gotta be real and stick to your strength ;)
I have build myself a little rails gem to help with that: https://github.com/KaktusLab/sql_metrics
Makes me wonder if they just leave them on the ground of the ocean or recover them?
...I bet otherwise the Russians or Chinese would love to get their hands one of them :)
Had the same thoughts lately. There is way too much high level generic advice passed around.
Like 'you need to find product market fit'...well how the hell do you do that?
So I started a little blog series where I attempt to go a little deeper: https://medium.com/@matthiaswagner/you-can-t-be-the-muhammad...
Let me know what you think
Consumers are not rational!
Specially on kickstarter people buy impulsive and want to be part of something.
The Coca-Cola recipe is publicly known for a long time and cheaper copies are available...but people keep buying The original.