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Interpersonal skills is a necessary component of playing the game, but the end game is power and influence and winning.
It’s awful when the wrong tool/stack/architecture/etc. is chosen due to someone’s powerplay.
There are little emperors at every firm trying to lobby their influence; then the ones who gain start choking off anything that smacks of competition.
I see this as a huge negative.
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Interpersonal skills is a necessary component of playing the game, but the end game is power and influence and winning.
It’s awful when the wrong tool/stack/architecture/etc. is chosen due to someone’s powerplay.
There are little emperors at every firm trying to lobby their influence; then the ones who gain start choking off anything that smacks of competition.
I see this as a huge negative.