> Derek is doing the best he can. Yup. Few people go to work every day to do a bad job. Like the OC's epiphany about Sturgeon's Law, I chilled (a little bit)

> Derek is doing the best he can. Yup. Few people go to work every day to do a bad job. Like the OC's epiphany about Sturgeon's Law, I chilled (a little bit) once I realized that most people are already playing at their highest level. > ...start looking at it as an opportunity to provide solutions to help... Back when I was doing proper product development, eg burning CDs and printing manuals, this was a pretty good strategy. Something changed. And I'm not smart enough to see it. My best guess is that most dev work is now "IT". Agile. Everything is make believe. Nothing ever really ships or is considered done. Then 18 - 36 elapse and its time for a do over. Any knowledge, culture, or lessons learned sent to /dev/null. I've been binging the Oxide Computer podcast. They're actually making something. Concrete, real, shippable, useful. That'd be nice.