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        1. Solving problems as Engineers is important, yet how you solve them is even more important. You create a precedent on how things are solved, and it might lead to a bad culture as Hero's, or bad habits of relying on the wrong way on solving problems. Thread 👇
      1. …in reply to @aleixmorgadas
        Just imagine you are helping the business to solve a recurrent problem from the customer by fixing the DB State. For the business, you're resolutive and helping them. Yet, multiple things happened here
    1. …in reply to @aleixmorgadas
      1. You created a dependency with yourself 2. Now the business considers you a hero over others that aren't doing that. 3. Now others have the pressure to do as you do 4. Now your valuable time is expected in fixing instead of preventing
  1. …in reply to @aleixmorgadas
    We just created a bad environment to be working in. 👉 Overwhelmed work environment for the continuous fixing 👉 Repetitive tasks 👉 Feeling of not being productive 👉 Feeling of not delivering value
    1. …in reply to @aleixmorgadas
      Just by helping the business, we had good intentions, but with a bad approach. Instead, apply the engineering mindset here. How can I... 👉 prevent this to happen again? 👉 add a tool to make business autonomous on resolving this problem instead of relying on me?