“I am successful if I’m saying the right “No”s to my manager. If the ICs that report to my manager end up feeling like “I told you so”or “We knew this was a bad idea”and that wasn’t surfaced for a discussion, that’s on me.”

It sounds very familiar here that the mark of a senior is to have continuous pressure against getting anything done and then still getting stuff done.

A nice interview with Gergely Orosz about building engineering teams.