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Title Progress is mostly about social skills than it is about code. You can write the best code possible, but it doesn’t count for squat unless you can talk to the right people and show them how your brillance will help them. Thats right them, that specific individual. Not the company, certainly not your career, but them. Sometimes of course there can be multiple people who benefit. But usually the same piece of work should be reframed based on who it is that you’re talking to. And maybe the way you’re benefiting this person is by finding an efficiency that saves the company money or development time (ergo money), and they get to tell their boss about all the awesome things their team is doing. ...

Every process in place at a company is written in the blood of those who came before you. Wield the knife yourself if you dare.

Why hello there I’m not entirely sure what the purpose of this blog is but I guess I now have a place to dump my thoughts? Title One of the things you tend to understand as you work in team structures is that doing the bare minimum is not particularly difficult (assuming you’re diligent of course). The thing is though, when you are given a responsibilty, its because whoever you’re supposed to report to cannot handle so many things at once; hence the delegation of work. ...