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Re:Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture by mym1990 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:42PM (#34086130)
But if you're working on something so complex that it needs 6 months of heads down time...and you're not getting any technical feedback or advice...is that not a huge red flag?
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Re:Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture by yencabulator on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:13PM (#34088109)
Grandparent said

> Your level as an engineer should be based on how much deep work you can do without screwing the pooch.

A really good engineer can do 6 months of head-down work without a disaster. A really good engineer does not need technical feedback or advice in that time, as long as the problem is clear enough in the beginning.

Here, try this as a though exercise: "Create a new distributed nosql database that uses WASM modules for non-interactive transactions." A really good engineer really, really, doesn't need "technical feedback" during the process to implement that.

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