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Lara Hogan
Personal blog · larahogan.me/blogcareerproductivity
Lara Hogan writes Lara Callender Hogan, a personal blog at larahogan.me about career and productivity. Since 2015, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “What work looks like at different management levels”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for management and leadership writing, such as 'We Need To Talk About Your Q3 Roadmap' on looking after staff recovering from a pandemic year, and posts on leadership and 1:1 meetings.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- A 'shout out' for the 'We Need To Talk About Your Q3 Roadmap' post, which talks about taking care of workers just starting to make it out of a pandemic year.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lara Hogan levels up tech industry organizations and managers through her coaching and workshops.
Most-linked posts?
- What work looks like at different management levels6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-10-19
- Advice for a New Executive4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-09-02
- We need to talk about your Q3 roadmap3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-22
- Recognition and Rewards at Work3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-08
- Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-07
- Manager Handoffs2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-27
- Questions for our first 1:12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-22
- Donut Manifesto2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-25
- Better meetings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-17
- When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager crew2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-05
What Hacker News says?
there are lots of sports coaches that were not good players, but they are absolute experts in their sport. For some reason we've let agile/life coaches convince us that "management" is the event and someone with customer service management experience has a lot to say about software development management. Ted Lasso is a great show, but it's not gonna happen IRL. Though the Diamond Dogs would be a great peer group fo…
Comment linking /blog/manager-voltron/
on “Transparent leadership beats servant leadership”Submitted Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023) as a story · 313 points
HN discussionDan Luu has a list of programming blogs you might like: https://danluu.com/programming-blogs/ . The rest of his blog is good too! a few of my favorite blogs: - http://blog.acolyer.org for fantastic daily summaries of CS papers. - http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/ -- she has a business creating a new compression algorithm and I love reading about it - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ is pure gold for weird debugging st…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”Submitted When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager crew as a story · 185 points
HN discussion1 point by rektide 32 minutes ago | parent | edit | delete [–] | on: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's b... Shout out to Laura Hogan's late-April "We Need To Talk About Your Q3 Roadmap"[1], which talks about taking care of workers just starting to make it out of a crazy pandemic year. [1] https://larahogan.me/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-your-q3-road...
Comment linking /blog/we-need-to-talk-about-your-q3-roadmap/
on “Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break”Submitted Don't soften feedback as a story · 176 points
HN discussionWhat I have liked both as a manager and as an employee is to talk about things that are important but not urgent, especially focusing on the employee's experience and happiness. I think they day-to-day work stuff belongs mostly elsewhere. When I start 1:1s with a new engineer, I will ask about why they took the job, what they were hoping to get out of it, and where they see themselves as going professionally. Then o…
Comment linking /resources/one-on-ones/
on “Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers?”Submitted Questions for our first 1:1 as a story · 88 points
HN discussionFirst and foremost: you need to decide if being a people manager is something you're really passionate about. If you're unsure, probably this is not the right time for you. You can certainly acquire the skills to become a great manager, but it takes effort, and you'll feel miserable if that's not what you want to do with your career. Worse: the experience of folks who report to you will be a mess. If you're not sure…
Comment linking /blog/coming-soon-resilient-management
on “Ask HN: Promoted to Management, but Have Doubts”Submitted Dealing with surprising human emotions: desk moves (2017) as a story · 62 points
HN discussionShout out to Laura Hogan's late-April "We Need To Talk About Your Q3 Roadmap"[1], which talks about taking care of workers just starting to make it out of a crazy pandemic year. [1] https://larahogan.me/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-your-q3-road...
Comment linking /blog/we-need-to-talk-about-your-q3-roadmap/
on “Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break”Submitted My team is going in circles. Help as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Team Leader Venn Diagram as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manager Handoffs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advice for a New Executive as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Work at different management levels as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What work looks like at different management levels as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions for our first 1:1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resources for navigating complex leadership work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advice for a new executive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Team Leader Venn Diagram as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why can't they just? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Work at different management levels as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should I create a performance improvement plan for my direct report? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resources for Navigating Complex Leadership Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managering in Terrible Times (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When to delegate, when to say no as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jean, Jorts, and Tough Feedback as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can be directive without being a jerk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Soften Feedback as a story · 2 points
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