❤️ wire crimps 😋

Finally had a chance to watch it. Shared it to the various clubs and the young women I'm training up (currently no males in the group)

100%. That's me.

I feel like I've moved into a different career phase now* but I felt this strongly on behalf of my younger self.

* Older. Ambition is more nebulous. Defined in terms of "I'd like to work on that" more than "I want to be seen in that way". Abide if things aren't done the way I'd like to see them done. Accept I don't have ownership. Nothing wrong with the other way, I just can't anymore personally.

Really needed to hear the “culture comes top down, not bottom up” line. Current org is very… the company would be cool if the culture being imbued from above wasn’t a clown show of mediocre men focused on “deliverables” while the deliverable might as well be a pizza handed over upside down

Beautifully explained.

thank you 🫶🏼

Been there. It sucks. Have some fun abd then go do something more awesome.

Corporate politics and honesty are very not compatible quite often. Honesty and truth are very important in technical work. So yeah that checks out

your capacity for authenticity and vulnerability is rare, and there are also rare places where it would be appreciated and compensated

thank you for saying that 🫶🏼

i mean it. many engineers are born to be give-no-fucks honest, yet vulnerability is often seen as a fault to be avoided but engineers willing to say "we/i fucked up" in front of clients in a genuine way, and sincerely commit to improvement, are very valuable to the right vendors

“Doing it right.. long term big picture vs checking a box in Jira” really hits right now. Thanks for the reminder, take care. it’s frustrating but we get through it together with the other people who get it.

100%. take care ❤️

Super thoughtful.

thank you 😊

Beautiful. I have been promoted well above my capability (Peter principle), I was a good engineer. I could connect things together really well, and enjoyed doing it. I don't enjoy trying to work out what my (director) peers are getting up to. Just let me do my job.

Beautifully put. The happiest times of my 45-year career have been when my managers have a relevant tech background, but view their job as shielding others from the bullshit while still inviting their input. The worst: managers have a different tech background and don't get what I do.

Very well laid out, I've been sharing this with a few friends and co-workers. I'm sorry for what I'm sure is plenty of stress around whatever went down. Thanks for making your content!

Thanks for this - gonna play it for the students - rubric: the importance of being able to communicate the technical information in a way non-techs will get. Clear graphics and an exec summary as the 'moneyball'.

Unfortunately, once you get deep enough into the political games, clarity of communication matters a lot less than who you play golf with. You can explain everything perfectly. If the political winds are against you, it won't matter. That's not going to be their fault.

One of the many reasons I was never going to be CTO, or dean, for that matter - too many inconvenient questions.

Solid. Absolutely solid. 30 years in my field, I still feel a lot of this. There is a lot of great wisdom here that I had to learn the hard way over many years.

I went through a few tough lessons on this and I'm so happy to have found a leadership team that is seeking a better top-down culture and wants my help in building that. It's been a long journey to find this place and I will be selective about future employment as well; toxic culture sucks.

So much of this resonated.

i’m sorry 😞 ❤️

It's ok. I'm glad to know that I'm not alone in this.

A couple of years ago I reached that point in my career where I don't play corporate politics any more. Go ahead, fire me. I already know where all the metaphorical bodies are buried.

'sometimes you lose a popularity contest' so much in life with other people boils down to this. i've had multiple abusers get away with the most heinous stuff simply because of this. the people 'listening' made a conscious decision that they liked this person more so they simply decided not to care.

This is great.

Navigating corporate politics can be like a whole other job with completely different skill sets and it can suck a lot. Hope things improve or you’re able to move to a new situation. 🧑‍💻

A *HUGE* part of department-level leadership is dealing with the politics and protecting/insulating those below you on the org chart from it.

Being bad at corporate politics is something you should be proud of and cherish. It means you haven't become an excessively pragmatic, hyper cynical, husk of a human. While avoiding it will be "career limiting", it is also "sanity preserving".

I think I’m beginning to see the winning strategy here!