Answered from The Visibility Habit That Got Me To Principal Engineer · A Life Engineered · 2026-10-30
Steve Huynh frames it as a game: never make your manager ask for your status, and if they have to ask, you lose. Keeping your manager ahead of your progress means one-on-one time no longer has to be spent on status updates.
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