> At two of the four businesses I've worked at, the most highly-performing engineers have resorted to something that I think of as Pain Zone navigation. It's th

> At two of the four businesses I've worked at, the most highly-performing engineers have resorted to something that I think of as Pain Zone navigation. It's the practice of never working unless pair programming [...] The fear and dread comes from a culture where people feel bad that they can't work quickly enough in the terrible codebase Exactly why I burned-out at work, worked at most 2 hours per day on a good day and finally was ejected from the project after a PM that graduated last year from school noticed and went after my head. Author is a wizard for describing the situation this well. It's been 3 days I've been free from the tyranny of Jira and project managers, and I worked more on my personal projets than I did in a week at my former workplace.