> Also engineers get better (and happier) when they do challenging tasks! I would rather encourage them to engineer to the limit of ability but deliver to Ed:

> Also engineers get better (and happier) when they do challenging tasks! I would rather encourage them to engineer to the limit of ability but deliver to Ed: within the limit of burning out my engineering team, plus some comfortable margin gained from the encouragement given, which should be rewarded. I've talked myself into engineering insufficient time for unforseen downtime tasks and it took me a while to realise that I was wearing my management hat as a founder and not the engineering hat I should have been wearing.