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> Shipping is really hard and you have to make it your main priority if you want to ship This feels like it’s written by AI by a junior level “prompt engineer”
by xyst 2y ago
> Shipping is really hard and you have to make it your main priority if you want to ship
This feels like it’s written by AI by a junior level “prompt engineer”
> Shipping doesn’t mean deploying code, it means making your leadership team happy
Aka, corporate glazing. Gotcha. Over sell your corporate accomplishments and polish your turd with a clean deck. Gotta make sure the font is just barely legible and explain it quickly before they ask follow up questions
> You need your leadership team to trust you in order to ship
yea that’s why I get _paid_ to do work, not glaze c-level executives and appeal to their fragile egos
> Most of the essential technical work is in anticipating problems and creating fallback plans
Falling back is a loser mentality.
> You should asking yourself “can I ship right this second?”
no, I should be asking myself, “why am I still at this dead end job that asks me to constantly ‘ship’ a broken product. Leadership doesn’t want to encourage delivering value to the customer”
> Have courage!
You don’t need courage at a “big TeCh” job. Just be slightly competent and you are already light years ahead of your colleagues
- johnnyanmac 2y ago>Aka, corporate glazing. Gotcha. Over sell your corporate accomplishments and polish your turd with a clean deck Is it wrong, though? This is a pretty much universal phenomenon. It's less about real goal X and more about making sure the boss feels good when you're around. That usually correlates with being a good worker, but not always. > why am I still at this dead end job that asks me to constantly ‘ship’ a broken product. Because the economy is broken right now and my country is gaslighting me into think it's perfectly fine for rent to go up 50% in 2-3 years and groceries to double. There's definitely a storm coming, I can worry about my passions again when it passes.