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    "excerpt": "When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, \u201cI don\u2019t believe that project will go anywhere, they\u2019re solving the wrong problem.\u201d I used to wonder, \u201cBut you are very senior, why don\u2019t you just go and speak to them about your concerns?\u201d It felt like a waste of his influence to not say anything.",
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    "title": "Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail"
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