299: Balancing Management and IC Work

This week, we answer a listener question about the balance of being both a manager and an individual contributor, which leads to some more existential conversation about sharing what we think we know and the fear of being wrong loudly in public. And as always, we share a couple cool things like a Marvel movie pitch and an addictive reality show (and Marshall shares the rough skeleton of his screenplay idea).

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Follow-up:

Kevin Gutowski is building a plugin on top of Abstract's API that allows your coworkers to view and download all the assets in a master
Marc Edwards makes Skala Preview, which allows you to view your mocks with simulated colorblindness

Listener Question:

Q wants to know how to effectively balance being a manager and an individual contributor
Flow state is "the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity"
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is "a cognitive bias in which people mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is"
Audio: "Talk less, smile more" references a recurring line from the broadway musical Hamilton

One Cool Thing:

Brian shared "Nando Pitches Ant-Man and The Wasp 2," a video by YouTube creator Nando v Movies pitching the third installment in the Ant-Man series
Correction: Nando's first original content pitch was for Suicide Squad 2
Marshall shared his screenplay idea
Video: Time Travel in Fiction Rundown does a great job of explaining the different ways time travel can be portrayed
Video: Ex Machina Opening Scene is a reference for winning a ticket to the mystery alpha
Video: Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Pure Imagination is a reference for the Omni campus tour
Video: Jurassic Park - Mr. DNA Sequence is a reference for the time travel mechanics exposition
Tom Holland is today's Michael J. Fox
Marshall also shared Survivor, an addicting, always-evolving competition that commands each player to outwit, outplay, and outlast

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