Re:How to be a -10x Engineer
by nerdponx on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:10AM
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I certainly have, but I have rarely regretted spending the time to prioritize my work before starting my work and/or discussing the same with my team. Like pretty much all work of all kinds, there is variance in how long it takes and how effective the outcome is per person-minute.
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Exactly, there’s a fine line between prioritization and bikeshedding.
These categories on ticket have little to do with me prioritizing my work. There are thousands tickets in each of those categories.
>spending the time to prioritize my work before starting my work and/or discussing the same with my team
And in the past, I did regretted opening unnecessary discussions quite a few times. I learned not to do it, because it ended in endless bike shedding or conflicts and there were no special gained insights. Turns out, I can do trivial decisions by myself.