# Elided Branches: The Manager as Debugger

<http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-manager-as-debugger.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

I have observed that the best engineering managers I know are often also great debuggers. Why would this be? What is it about these two tasks that has such an overlapping skill set?

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