The "Show That You're Doing Something" Gambit
Many many many years ago - during the DotCom era - I was at a company that unicorn-ed overnight. Mind you, before the craziness, we were a tiny company, a handful of people at that. But then - DotCom bubble, websites, and BOOM! , we were growing like mad. It was pretty awesome, I have to tell ya 🤗 At the time, I was young, full of beans, and pretty certain that the world revolved around me. And the hyper-growth certainly only served to accentuate this - after all, it was obvious that I had something to do with all of our success, right? Somewhere along the way, we brought in a couple of people who were, well, capable of doing what I was doing. And, what’s worse, they had been doing it for a lot longer, and at a much larger scale, than I was. Thing is, I knew that I was better, stronger, faster than them, I just needed some way of showing everybody that I was all that and a bag of chips. And I needed to do it right damn now becau...