> "My Company would be fine without me" also means you can take vacation, medical appointments, heck even weekend (crazy concept!). This is so worth it! A dec

> "My Company would be fine without me" also means you can take vacation, medical appointments, heck even weekend (crazy concept!). This is so worth it! A decade ago, I was the technical cofounder of a still-small startup. For a while, it was just me and my co-founder. But when we got signs of product-market fit, I hired a team of developers. We set it up so the default was pair programming with frequent pair rotation, with a lot of other tweaks to make it very collaborative. This paid off in a lot of ways, but for me the biggest came when my mom got sick. I had to fly across the country and stay for weeks at a time to help her and coordinate her care. I was worried things might grind to a halt. But because every commit to the code base involved at least two people, it was fine. There were things I understood better than others, but there was nothing that was a scary mystery that nobody had touched. When I left the company, it was the same deal. We were on good terms, so they were welcome to call. But they rarely if ever did! It was great to pop in now and again and see them just chugging ahead.