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Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)

This is great advice to become a pain in the ass that managers know they need to keep on a short leash.

There's a big difference between "I'm going to put this into prod on tuesday unless you tell me otherwise" vs "I'm going to put a prototype together for review on Tuesday unless you tell me this is a waste of time"

3 minutes agoslowcache

I'm going to cause an expensive outage that will ruin the company, and our careers unless you say no to sugar in the coffee!!!!

2 minutes agoawesome_dude

This is one of the articles where I'm immeditaly grateful to the author to have written it down. Very good and easy to pick up point, actionable advice. Well written.