“Know how to do it better? Congratulations, you will be permanently dissatisfied.” Try to be empathetic when you give advice. Take into account the company’s c

“Know how to do it better? Congratulations, you will be permanently dissatisfied.” Try to be empathetic when you give advice. Take into account the company’s circumstances when the code was written. E.g. The code might be utterly horrible but was written by a non-programmer who studied 3 months of javascript at community college, but gets the job done, in that case, rather than be dissatisfied, see if you can convince yourself to be impressed instead. Keep in mind people are trying their best; otherwise you would not have joined them! Instead of thinking about it as office politics - think of initiating yourself to be a member of a tribe, is it only a matter of how many deers you kill and how much grain you harvest, or are there other important qualities of a tribe member? There will always be a time to show off your abilities or improve the state of affairs but sometimes the time is “not now”. In our minds we think we are rational but in our hearts we are and always will be a part of nature.