I consider myself fortunate to love these damned infernal machines such that my passion and the-good-work aligns. Early in my career at AWS, after a bit of ego

I consider myself fortunate to love these damned infernal machines such that my passion and the-good-work aligns. Early in my career at AWS, after a bit of ego alignment, I realized the tremendous opportunity to just grind and get things done. Going above and beyond was learning more and more. I read years of COE reports learning why and how massive distributed systems fail which made me a better team mate, better code reviewer, and help me help managers. Sure, I had a job to do, but the going above and beyond should be self interested.