eh, I dunno. I think that as a technical person? trying to change things based on "business impact" or based on micro fundamentals is probably going to caus

eh, I dunno. I think that as a technical person? trying to change things based on "business impact" or based on micro fundamentals is probably going to cause more problems for the company than just doing what I'm told. (At the very least, it's going to cause a lot more problems for my career.) - I mean, one would hope that the big company could afford to hire a businessperson who could more than just eek by. I do think that experience of managing people has made me a better employee, even if maybe I'm not ready to really be a manager again yet. I've got a lot more empathy for the boss than I did before starting this. I've been a bad boss, and I know what leads to those bad boss behaviors, and it's not maliciousness. Managing people is just hard. And there is a bigger picture that you don't see as an employee. I now can accept that when the boss asks me to do something a stupid way, if the boss still tells me to do it that way after I explain why I think it's stupid, well, sometimes there are other issues outside the boss' control that make the stupid way the only way. If anything, running my own company has made me way better at 'staying in the box' when necessary. Or, at least, it has convinced me that there are times that I ought to stay in the box.