I really like this approach (and I tend to do this myself), but lots of people get really upset. PG wrote an essay recently in which he talks about “aggressive

I really like this approach (and I tend to do this myself), but lots of people get really upset. PG wrote an essay recently in which he talks about “aggressive conformists” and “aggressive non-conformists”. You’re right in that being an aggressive non-conformist at a big company likely (though not definitely) won’t get you fired, but it certainly will rankle the aggressive conformists and not make you many friends from that group. And that may or may not be really bad for your career.