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floating-iolast Thursday at 4:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

Reality is that the ones quietly holed up in the corner are usually doing all the unsexy maintenance-type work that the extroverts don't want to do (because it's not sexy).

Nobody cares about that work... until it doesn't get done. And so, nobody doing it gets promoted.


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ambicapterlast Thursday at 6:53 PM

Communicating the importance of your work is a professional skill.

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ghafflast Thursday at 6:47 PM

Or it gets outsourced which is what often happens.