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Decades ago when I was getting started there was a team that fell way behind and everyone on the team worked weekends and many days until midnight and finally d
by gmarx 3y ago
Decades ago when I was getting started there was a team that fell way behind and everyone on the team worked weekends and many days until midnight and finally delivered some buggy arguable product 6 months late. They were hailed as heroes. No one even noticed me and my team delivering on time. I learned a valuable and entirely inapplicable lesson.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoIME this can sometimes be overcome with a bit of self promotion. Don't let accomplishments be forgotten or overshadowed. It is a political game. Also teach the execs that heroism doesn't scale. We all want to be entertained by the hero stories, but no one actually wants to live in a world that requires high-visibility heroics.
- gmarx 3y agoI understand this intellectually but it is just exhausting