- Topics: [[Problem-solving]] --- - To engineers ... You are not your Jira tickets. The work isn't to look productive in Jira. The work is to solve real problems, and to do so with others. - You are not your code. Code is simply a means and medium to solve problems with. - To think that the work is represented solely by Jira and code (or worse, your identity & worth is represented by Jira & code), is at best misguided and at worse, dangerous. This narrow thinking separates you from the work, and you from genuine excellence.