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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

the problem is that for every ideas man, you need at least 20 people to actually do the work. And that work is a lot more tedious than being the one who comes up with the ideas

and of course, most people can't tell the difference between a "good ideas man" and a "bad ideas man", and there are a lot more of the latter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly, this skillset helped me a lot when they threw a QA Project Manager position at me. I had familiarised myself with at least the basics of every process enough to be able to pick up some slack myself when and where needed. Even allowed me to send the team home early at times, when there were tests which I could perform alone (they were tedious, but not extremely complex).

Plus it can lead to a lot of potential optimisation precisely by viewing the top-down perspective and noticing any interactions and dependencies which may be harder to see when in the thick of it, so to speak.

It requires some fiddling around and figuring things out, of course, but it builds upon itself - as I've mentioned initially, every new subject I assimilated built upon my intuition, and it snowballed up to the point where I've managed to intuit my way through everything which has concerned my career so far.