anthonygd

Yep to both. For years I've been a practicing engineer who manages.

Surprising similar strategies: pick an ideal target state; get buy-in from stake holders (fellow engineers or business people); come up with a multi-step plan with milestones; get started. If the milestones aren't getting completed and the target isn't measurably closer, you have a problem.

Rewriting the code over the weekend doesn't work. Using positional power to decree changes doesn't work either. Well, if either of those work then it wasn't that serious of a change anyway.

Seems reasonable enough, but you might be falling for the old fallacy that doing something is always better than doing nothing. It's an easy sales pitch but it's not actually a valid argument.

Using #DefundThePolice as an example... it seems obvious that something needs done but https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/ doesn't make a convincing case about. There are a lot of people who are opposed to the status quo but don't see much value in that particular hashtag. Does that seem anti-BLM to you?

What does anti-BLM mean to you?

FWIW - I periodically remind myself that everyone I know is deeply flawed and is wrong to various extents on most topics. That includes myself.

Talk is cheap, so people say (passionately) things with virtually no thought. Wait to see what people do and decide whether it's a _direct_ threat. If there's a 7 step chain of causation that's threatening, then you should relax and acknowledge you're probably wrong. The other part is you should make sure your actions directly align with your values.

Don't be this guy: https://xkcd.com/386/