An interesting corollary to this that first starts hitting hard at the early mid career level and never quits: "It is not your job to write slack messages". (O

An interesting corollary to this that first starts hitting hard at the early mid career level and never quits: "It is not your job to write slack messages". (Or emails, depending on the company.) It can really feel like it is! Very much like the code one, it often feels like, well, this is the work; answering questions, collaborating, influencing the direction of the team and organization. And communication is indeed important. But again, much like code, it's a tool that is used to create useful things, it's not itself the useful thing.