Comment by erikerikson

Welcome to HN.

Your comment read to me like an attempt to energize and motivate. It didn't seem to have "substance". How does your comment help me improve my understanding of what compromises a good engineer? Instead it seems to suggest I shut down my mind, stop doing the work, and feel like I've already won before I've even started. Yet, improving as an engineer has come with a lot of work, challenging myself to get more specific, be concrete and appropriately detailed, as well as thinking through "but really... How would that work throughout the complete causal chain with no shortcuts?".

I won't claim there aren't downsides but there is a utility to the expectation. Hopefully you find ways it can help you grow.