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Perhaps unpopular opinion, but the recent Elon/twitter “submit your work” idea and this ain’t far from each other.
by bfung 4y ago
Perhaps unpopular opinion, but the recent Elon/twitter “submit your work” idea and this ain’t far from each other.
- PragmaticPulp 4y agoYou're not wrong. I wonder how many Twitter employees were laid off because they had been working on important, albeit boring, things in the 30-day code review window. I know I've had periods of career anxiety where I've been working on things that are extremely important to the business, yet are too boring for anyone to remember in a few months. I've been in some depressing situations where the people focusing on highly visible fluff work were celebrated and promoted while the engineers keeping the lights on were forgotten.
- bfung 4y agoThere’s some salesmanship in boring but critical work also. A younger me would scoff at needing to “sell/pitch” my work, but limited attention spans are real; busy bosses have no time to read the code. For the boring yet critical work, a simple way to show progress is “it used to take X effort to do this, and with latest improvements, it takes (X-y) effort, saving $.” Just make sure ‘y != 0’.