> Your manager sees you shipping faster, so the expectations adjust. You see yourself shipping faster, so your own expectations adjust. The baseline moves. Thi

> Your manager sees you shipping faster, so the expectations adjust. You see yourself shipping faster, so your own expectations adjust. The baseline moves. This problem has been going on a long time, Helen Keller wrote about this almost 100 years ago: > The only point I want to make here is this: that it is about time for us to begin using our labor-saving machinery actually to save labor instead of using it to flood the nation haphazardly with surplus goods which clog the channels of trade. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1932/08/put-your-husband-in-the-kitchen/306135/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1932/08/put-you...