My 2nd article this week, I'm supposed to keep it to just once per week but whateverrr, I've had this in drafts for a while now, let's get straight into it.
Here's the thing about "ownership mindset" that nobody on the management side wants to admit: you love the slogan. You hate the behavior.
You want engineers who care. Who think about scale. Who ask "wait, will this melt in four months?" Who treat the product like it's theirs.
Cool. Then someone actually does that in a meeting, and suddenly they're "being difficult," "not a team player," "too negative," or my personal favorite — "can you just build what I asked for?"
I've sat through this movie enough times that I can recite the script.
