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    "excerpt": "I got some feedback at my performance review last week that I\u2019ve been turning over since. The short version: I\u2019m good at evaluating technical decisions, but I\u2019m not always good at making the shape of those decisions visible to the people around me. I had a rich mental model for how a major architectural choice fit together. I\u2019d written the proposal, circulated it, gotten broad support. And I still didn\u2019t bring people along for the ride. The evaluation was sound. The high-level communication was fine. But the vast landscape of technical detail and tradeoffs that lived beneath the proposal (the part that other engineers would need to navigate after the decision was made) stayed in my head longer than it should have. I think, if I\u2019m honest, the organizational hunger for the adoption made it easy to skip past that work. When everyone is excited to move forward, the voice that says \u201cwe should slow down and make sure the whole team can see what I see\u201d is easy to mistake for unnecessary caution.",
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    "title": "Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions"
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