Products are Fun, Promotion is Not, and Preventing Perfectionism
CTO Think Podcast22 Tammi 2019

Products are Fun, Promotion is Not, and Preventing Perfectionism

We begin talking about the career aspirations of sports officiants (tennis gigs) and upcoming technology projects Don wants to tackle, but it slowly morphs into a discussion about outsourcing, build/buy, and trying to maintain perfection simply because you have Subject Matter Expertise in a particular area (yes, the code stuff). The result was a great episode about self-reflection as you try to figure out what your role should be as you climb the management ladder, while still loving to build apps.

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