[huehue]

"Teach Yourself Management in Ten Years" haha

Management isn't that hard, specially compared to engineering where competition is fierce. The degrees are an absolute joke. I had virtually no social life during my CS studies, but the other one? Some of the managers I know don't even have one.

If you're the average HN reader you might have to hone up your soft skills and that's about it. Any competent developer would do just fine without training, even with autism going rampant in our industry.

It's not like we all jumped into the management career path in search for a challenge.

[LargeWu]

Just because something is a "soft skill" doesn't mean it's easy.

I suspect anybody that thinks effective management is easy would not do very well in that role. I've seen plenty of competent developers get chewed up and spit out as managers because they didn't understand what they needed to do to run successful teams.