{"id":691,"date":"2012-01-16T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2012-01-16T16:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T00:04:39","slug":"lessons-from-a-long-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/lessons-from-a-long-career\/","title":{"rendered":"lessons from a long career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At every geek company that I&#8217;ve worked for, most people send out a good-bye email to their team when they&#8217;re moving on. \u00a0Today, one of my <a title=\"the alpha mini-newswire\" href=\"http:\/\/kejadlen.tumblr.com\/\">colleagues<\/a> from my previous team posted a going-away mail from someone else who&#8217;d been on that team since the dawn of time. \u00a0He included\u00a0<a title=\"Lessons from a long career at Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/kejadlen.tumblr.com\/post\/15972842655\/lessons-from-a-long-career-at-microsoft\">lessons from a long career at Microsoft<\/a>. \u00a0I have to admit that this is my favorite lesson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>6. At some point, you will have to resolve a bug by saying, \u201cIf the user does something that dumb, they get what they deserve.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are nine other pieces of wisdom on that list, so you should go check it out. \u00a0#7 on that list is one of the absolute rules of the universe, second only to gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At every geek company that I&#8217;ve worked for, most people send out a good-bye email to their team when they&#8217;re moving on. \u00a0Today, one of my colleagues from my previous team posted a going-away mail from someone else who&#8217;d been on that team since the dawn of time. \u00a0He included\u00a0lessons from a long career at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/lessons-from-a-long-career\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">lessons from a long career<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}