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I'm retired for health reasons. When I was working, I hated dealing with 2 overlapping categories of people:

0. anti-excellence:

0.a. slobs/jerks who didn't care about system or code entropy, or the effects of their carelessness on other developers, users, or other stakeholders

0.b. uncurious people who lacked knowledge and didn't care about learning because it was "just a job to them"

1. "competitive" egotists who sought to exert force, control, or domination of "their way" rather than collaborative experimentation

Furthermore, environments that reward impact and achievement to maximize credit for performance review seldom reward refactoring, training, or any sort of deep problem solving or presentation of tools, methodology, or experience.





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