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Well, they also promote people based on impact and, with rare exceptions, if you're holed up in a corner someplace you're probably not having a huge amount of impact.

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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.

Communicating the importance of your work is a professional skill.

And if it actually isn't very important, you should probably find something else to do or move on in some other way.

Or it gets outsourced which is what often happens.

If it was all about impact then ppl wouldn't be paying thousands of dollars to learn to play golf with their bosses. But you knew that already.

Is closing deals on the golf course even still a thing these days? I suppose it probably is in some circles but I haven't seen it in a couple of decades of tech industry life when it was more likely to be fun runs or skiing.

closing deals with your boss? what does that even mean.

Getting a promotion?

But my broader point was that golf course socializing seems like mostly a different world today, at least in my tech circles, relative to other venues.

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