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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

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  1. estetlinus · · focus · HN ↗
    When I worked as a props assistant (movie set), I required approval for my overtime. I remember my boss once saying ”Linus, it feels like your inventing your own overtime” (he was not wrong). Is that what’s happening in platform teams worldwide?

    At my last company it took ~4 weeks to get a storage container because they were so overwhelmed with work and blocking precisely the whole company.

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