On Organizing

Responsibilities

  • When tasked with a responsibility:
    • "Dig ditches" => Nobody is too good for any task. Do not be limited by the responsibility entailing tasks that are out of your wheelhouse. Presuming the task is to solve a problem that affects you, your team, or your customers you should be the one do what is needed.
    • "Build bridges" => No domain is off-limits when pursuing a solution. Do not limit your knowledge if a task requires you to understand a domain on the other side of a river.
    • "Return shopping carts" => Do leave things better that you found them!
    • "Boiling the ocean" => Do operate within bounds of what is possible within the constraints you are under (time)
  • egoloess.engineering => Reference for some of the above