Ask HN: Did you learn any life changing lessons this year?

Re:Ask HN: Did you learn any life changing lessons this year? by JoshCalbet on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @06:18PM (#18759585)

There is so much inertia in a big organization if you want to do something, it is better not to ask and work on it and keep pushing things forward until someone explicitly ask you to stop. It is not productive and possibly dangerous to be waiting for approval or even guidance, when there is so many things to do and no one offer to help, stop looking for guidance, dive deep into the code, solve the problems and make a defense of your solutions.

That was a life changing lesson. I became more productive I got rejections a couple of times, but the rate of success was way more than I expected.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you learn any life changing lessons this year? by drieddust on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @10:29PM (#18760288)

But why do you want to take initiatives nobody wants?

I have been your shoe a lot of times and it usually ends in your work of useful openly taken advantage of with no attribution.

So unless you are in right position, don't do it.

A have resorted to running these ideas as personal project outside work.

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