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Aug 2025
4 years at Big tech. Being likeable beats being productive every single time
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**TL;DR: Grinding harder made me less productive AND less likeable. Being calm is the actual cheat code.** I'm 4 years deep at a big tech company, and work-life balance has been absolutely brutal late
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