Excellent points! Maybe anyone who decides to "check out" should consider getting physically away from the team, if possible. Find those who proactively help ot

Excellent points! Maybe anyone who decides to "check out" should consider getting physically away from the team, if possible. Find those who proactively help others and apply healthy self-critical thinking. Kathy Sierra in "Badass: Making Users Awesome" said: "An important, unconscious way to develop expertise is being around high-quality, high-quantity examples of expertise." The flipside is apparently true: exposure to mediocre examples begets mediocrity.