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I don't think this is about performance. At least I wasn't referring to it in my comment. I was just saying that top performers who I respect are very skilled

I don't think this is about performance. At least I wasn't referring to it in my comment. I was just saying that top performers who I respect are very skilled at "being useless" when they need to maintain their autonomy, competence, and relatedness within their career in big tech. I don't know what you're seeing on reddit / hn, but there's also plenty of people talking about automating their "useless"/bullshit job and feeling guilty about it.

abakker 5y ago
There’s also a lot of people with skills and very useful jobs, but who don’t need 40hrs/week to add a ton of value. Playing dumb for all the BS that could end up assigned to you is a reverse-performance-management hack that keeps your free and clear to put in the hours that really matter, when they really matter.