What Gergely Orosz thinks about ambition
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Gergely Orosz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingInnovation tends to come from slack time away from firefighting, not from being fully utilized.
Their wordsInnovation often comes from having time to focus on other work, instead of putting out fires.
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