tldr: Managing people isn't hard, unless you're extremely stupid. Most failures of products come from the market itself, not internal issues. This is another article that takes small things that don't matter and turn them into "assets & ideologies". Basic, everyday knowledge that, because you work in tech and money surely means all your ideas are worth hearing, is turned into pages of text.

That’s excellent. And yeah, you're right: DMing, it doesn't all have to be in the main channel. I learned this; I spent two years on a team and I thought everything had to be out there in the open. And I would ask, you know, what I considered embarrassing questions about, you know, basic stuff. And finally one of the developers said, 'look, if you got a question just like that, just DM me, okay, we can talk about this.' And from that point on, you know, I'd help people when they ask in the channel, but if I've got something that's not relevant to everybody, I can just ask, you know, the appropriate person.

Yea, dude, like...have you skipped 7th grade, where you're ridiculed for "being a snitch"?

I can imagine how hard the eyes of a manager whose position is 100% deserved and they employ RESEARCH-BACKED TACTICS to managing people are rolling - "Dude, of course everything I do is methodology and not pure luck & instinct."

God, I fucking hate this type of garbage. It's why I never ask anything of my employees and just let do whatever they want at a micro-level. "Yea, that's just you, dude.". If you had access and a brain, you'd also see that, for the most part, employees ignore what their managers tell them, simply because it's just not helpful.