Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity. “You can’t write a compelling narrative about the thing you didn’t build. Nobody gets promoted for the complexity they avoided.”
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Thanks for this link. Calls out a pattern I've seen lots! Shared it with my team at work.
I'm a site reliability engineer, so I'm always pushing teams to build reliable and maintainable systems rather than overly complex ones.
I feel like the odd man out sometimes in my professional career. I like maintaining things! I like keeping something going for years, consistently, unexcitingly. I like being the dependable guy whose work is boring and predictable.
I like that this can be applied to other fields. I'm already rethinking how to make the simplicity of an approach in presentations more visible.
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