Skip to content

Baldur Bjarnason personal blog

Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity

by @fakebaldur baldurbjarnason.com 10 min read

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Read on baldurbjarnason.com → Discuss on HN (87) Archived copy

Points: 143
HN comments: 87
Submissions: 1
Cited by: 0 commenters

Tech Industry & Business Career & Management 2025

On Hacker News

Submitted	Title on HN	Points	Comments
Aug 7, 2025	Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity by speckx	143	87

More from Baldur Bjarnason

All 12 posts →

Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies

2023622 points420 commentscited by 6Tech Industry & Business details

Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting

2021615 points420 comments Web & Frontend details

The deterioration of Google

2024378 points321 comments Tech Industry & Business details

Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

2024352 points497 commentscited by 9Tech Industry & Business details

Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil

2023237 points171 comments AI & Machine Learning details

What do I need to read to be a CSS dev?

2021233 points130 comments Web & Frontend details

Related posts from the same era

Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

Mahad Kalam20253,406 points1,470 comments details

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

Anthropic20262,920 points1,579 commentscited by 14 details

Claude Fable 5

Anthropic20262,626 points2,159 commentscited by 10 details

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

Motorola News20262,358 points884 commentscited by 10 details

Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic20262,346 points1,031 commentscited by 9 details

.name Termination

Neil Fraser20262,230 points547 commentscited by 4 details