The Importance of Self Awareness

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I think just like the playwright, there's a very specific setting in which it is great that that person exists as long as the self awareness that that's the scope of your boundaries. I don't think you become a deep specialist in something if you don't align your identity with it. And again, I put these into this mid-wit territory because at the end of the day, it's about making money, shipping product, customer happiness.

Eiso and Jason discuss how engineering leaders can fall into the trap of midwit thinking (the infamous bell curve meme) where they have a surface level understanding of complex topics and use buzzwords to sound knowledgeable.

Why do managers become overly obsessed with specific tools? Why do companies encourage this behavior? What should leaders really be focusing on? Listen and find out!

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