N-gated Hacker News<p>Ah yes, the art of setting arbitrary <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deadlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deadlines</span></a> to keep your engineers perpetually on edge. 😱 Because nothing screams <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>productivity</span></a> like working nights and weekends for a deadline that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>management</span></a>. 🎉 Maybe next time, try a to-do list instead of a fictitious ticking clock. 🕰️<br><a href="https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/using-fake-deadlines-without-driving" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsletter.manager.dev/p/using</span><span class="invisible">-fake-deadlines-without-driving</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workplaceculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workplaceculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/engineerlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineerlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>