Our lead vocalist, Meital, will probably always remember me as that douchebag who gets angry very quickly. I used to be very self-centric person and luckily, thanks to my army service, this characteristic has changed. But nowadays, I’m much more aware of people that might get hurt by my sarcasm. As a team leader in the IDF, my main product was my developers, not the application I developed.

Our main product was the band, not the songs. Never ignore other people’s opinions, because your product is your byproduct, and your people are your product. You should always show that other people’s opinions are important as well, and may even lead you to that decision. Remember: your opinion is not the only one, and even if you have the mandate to veto, try to avoid using it. There is no reason to decide for someone else what is good for him. There is no reason to cancel someone’s opinion just because he thinks differently. In our day to day work, as software engineers, we can get emotional about all sorts of things: code quality, standards, solutions, paradigms, architecture, etc.

It is okay to argue, it is okay to have conflicts, as long as you talk about them and resolve them eventually. There is an obvious democracy in a band, and the more people in your band, and the more diverse your band is, the more conflicts you will have. You have to do things together and you have to decide together how to do it. Being in a band is very different from being a singer or being a random YouTube artist.

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