In reality that's what happens - the advice in this twitter thread is about the PM role, not engineering manager. It's still ridiculous though, because you stil

In reality that's what happens - the advice in this twitter thread is about the PM role, not engineering manager. It's still ridiculous though, because you still end up having phone calls with the CTO and CEO to explain why some arsehole is complaining directly to them about their pet project not getting prioritized, including having to explain to them that there is a process, which they designed, for us to make these decisions and that phoning me up isn't a part of that process.