Stuck in quicksand its just luke how to#
Stuck in quicksand its just luke software#

You need to drop pretty much every assumption, belief and thought. Everything that you’re carrying with you. In order to get out, you MUST drop EVERYTHING. So, how do you get out? Step #1 – drop EVERYTHING Rather, it’s literally a first thing that you get when googling for “how to get out of quicksand” (I pasted a link above).

Stuck in quicksand its just luke how to#

How to escape from quicksand?Īgain, this is not something that I made up. For extra fun, I’d suggest you open and read this article in parallel, which outlines the steps of getting out of actual quicksand. So I decided to google for “how to escape the quicksand” and transform those steps into real actionable steps of what you can do as a person currently going through drowning process. So, what in the world is there that you can do against this complicated situation? Interestingly enough, I think the similarity with “how to escape the quicksand” is actually 1 on 1 with a rockstar engineer whose drowning due to seemingly bad management decisions. If you try getting out forcefully – you drown. You know what this whole process resembles? It resembles a quicksand. And you keep getting yourself deeper and deeper into that shit. And that circle keeps getting more and more complicated. You want to tell them what they are doing, but nobody will listen, so you pretend not to care. You care and, to make it even worse, you can’t stop caring! And now you’re in a real pickle because you DON’T WANT TO CARE, but you still DO CARE. You CARE about your project, your client and, yes, the revenue.

What got you a status of a rockstar is the fact that you CARE. So you stop caring as well.Įxcept that you CAN NOT NOT care! And that’s the biggest issue. Whatever it is – the only scenario is – you, an engineer, learn that no one cares. That cold blooded room where common sense is left at the entrance and cash-interest is the only one allowed in. You tried talking, shouting, showcasing, … but nope. Ignore a problem until it stops being a problem and auto-magically fixes itself, right? Wrong! Of course it’s damn wrong! That frustration keeps piling up, until they (the engineer) actually learn something – they learn that there’s no point.

Nope! They’ve been frustrated in the past, and you just let them vent for a bit and they eventually come to their senses. They start shouting at their manager, swearing at higher ups, trying to explain that if we keep going this route we’ll end up drowning! System will start falling apart! Is anyone even listening?! Anyone? Slightly decreased motivation, a few harsh words against management here and there, but nothing too serious.

Stuck in quicksand its just luke software#

Highly motivated Software Engineer, a rockstar, one pushing the boundaries of innovation and melting the limits of implementation, eventually ends up drowning.

There’s definitely a trend I keep observing these days.