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Incentives for Engineers and Leadership in Engineering
The engineering incentives often encourage engineers to strive for complexity, to be the hero and to embrace being the 'bus factor'. The 'bus factor' refers to being indispensable to the team due to possessing unique knowledge, and some individuals are drawn to this perception. The speaker believes that this tendency towards complexity and the fetishization of being the indispensable person is a leadership problem within engineering.