Doing everyone else's job

Global Tech Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:56:53 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

I find it very useful to be able to do everyone else’s job — it helps you learn how they work and what they need, and it helps even more when you need their job done, but they won’t do it themselves.
If you made something new and those you made it for can’t be bothered to start using it, go ahead and integrate it into their system.
It worked for Intel back when they made their first 32-bit CPU and had their people add support for that CPU in Microsoft’s compiler — I’ve met someone from that Intel team.

I find it very useful to be able to do everyone else’s job — it helps you learn how they work and what they need, and it helps even more when you need their job done, but they won’t do it themselves.
If you made something new and those you made it for can’t be bothered to start using it, go ahead and integrate it into their system.
It worked for Intel back when they made their first 32-bit CPU and had their people add support for that CPU in Microsoft’s compiler — I’ve met someone from that Intel team.

Sources: Yosefk