If people around you are happy and things get done when they need to and others don't get blocked, it sounds like you are doing a great job and are merely baffl

If people around you are happy and things get done when they need to and others don't get blocked, it sounds like you are doing a great job and are merely baffled at how effecient you've gotten! If you have any interest, consider trying management? A lazy manager is a good manager, in the same long-term sense as a lazy developer is a good developer. Knowing what the real priorities are despite the bluster is a key manager skill. Nothing more wasteful than putting in tons of hours on a project that sounds important but ultimately isn't to the stakeholders that run the company, and the best managers have an incredible ability to read between the lines and predict what will end up mattering, and prioritize their own teams work accordingly.