In yesterday's Angry Weasel newsletter, Leadership is a Constant Experiment , Alan Page was explaining how, as a leader, he gets better results by trying things intentionally, in public, in a safe way: But in real work, confidence isn’t the superpower. Curiosity is. I feel this too, although confidence, or the appearance of it, can get you a good way up the greasy pole, if that's your chosen destination. In a post on LinkedIn today, John Cutler made an analogy between a software development teams and a restaurant kitchen where busyness is not a useful metric, and success means that great food is delivered as ordered in a timely fashion. He sadly concludes that: ... in software, effort is easy to generate, activity is easy to justify, and impact is surprisingly easy to avoid. This is a tragedy that plays out over and over. My primary goal in software is to help us to metaphorically put the right food on the right plates on the right table at the right time more oft...