I recognized this 20 years ago but my recognition was crude. What I noticed early on, in almost every place I worked, was most of what could be called office po

I recognized this 20 years ago but my recognition was crude. What I noticed early on, in almost every place I worked, was most of what could be called office politics for software devs/engineers boiled down to maneuvering to work on API's or even some place lower on the call stack.