People always seem to be scoffing when they say stuff like this, like it's a bad thing. But I don't get that attitude at all. I don't want to work on things whe

People always seem to be scoffing when they say stuff like this, like it's a bad thing. But I don't get that attitude at all. I don't want to work on things where the whole shape of the project is known up front. To me, that feels like doing art with a stencil. I love the process of seeking the most valuable next step to take while we feel our way through a dark room with an ambiguous destination. Now, the (common) version of this that I don't like is when there is no way to know whether a sequence of steps ended up in a better place than where it began. So feedback is very important to me, but there are lots of ways to get it; there are quantitative measures of growth in usage or revenue and there are qualitative measures like surveys or for things like internal platforms, seeing the roadmaps of other teams be unblocked or accelerated by your work. But I find significantly less joy in being told "we need this exact specific thing, please go build it and report back", and I have rarely seen it be the case that what they needed was actually that exact specific thing.