For a software engineer, these are great points to follow if the goal is to be the incompetent person on the team in a few years... Personally, while I find my

For a software engineer, these are great points to follow if the goal is to be the incompetent person on the team in a few years... Personally, while I find myself frequently in too many meetings or spending way too much time with email, or $DEITY, git rebasing to satisfy some power-hungry gatekeeper it is the little side projects that save my sanity. While many are the equivalent of throwing paint on a canvas, it is cathartic. So maybe the one good thing to come out of the google mgmt style that everyone seems to have copied (not the side project bit, all the other garbage) is the 20% time.