liberatus

Understand the business goals. Understand the _customer's_ goals.

Bring better ideas to the table on how to achieve them using your understanding of what is the ideal mix of easy/hard and long-term/short-term.

Track your efforts against the bottom line financials. Earn the raise you seek.

Perfect time to quote one of my two 'must have parenting books', The Collapse of Parenting.

"To become a better parent, one must become a better person."

Big win for JavaScript DSL composers. Reminds me of method_missing and other sharp knives in ruby.

I don't believe claims of perfection were made. Merely claims of a standard of excellence.

So you're an IC suffering under "incompetent management". Yeah sometimes you just can't work around this, but often times you can learn to sell your ideas better to those specific people. Maybe they don't jive with your delivery. Change it.

If you speak the language of revenue, you can rationalize almost anything that will grow it responsibly.

If the language of revenue and various delivery tactics still don't convince your management, then it's time to leave.

I too struggle with focusing on the negative sometimes, so I constantly encourage myself (and the author and others who are feeling similarly) to redouble efforts to optimistically communicate in the language of revenue.

Doesn't understand bayesian logic! Doesn't understand risk management!

Maybe now Heroku will cut their hosted PG prices down a bit.