Being good at your job and being good at describing your job are almost completely unrelated skills, and only one of them gets promoted.
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Promotion is decided in a room you are not in, by people reading a description of your work. The description is the artefact, not the work.
Which is why the best engineer on a team is so often the third most senior. The other two learned to narrate.
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what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.