One of my old jobs had me trying to turn the word salad our business lead told our clients into web apps. It’s truly amazing how someone can say so much and yet so little while convincing people to pay money for it. I ended up just having to best-guess what their business needs were on my own. That experience was honestly valuable in seeing through the blather - Jensen Huang with DLSS 5 the other day was a good example.
If you “best guess” up a success based on no actionable guidance, they take all the credit, you only did what you were told, like any common peon, they had the “real vision”.
If your best guess falls, well your execution failed their brilliant insight. Not their fault, circumstances failed to get them the right people.
One of my old jobs had me trying to turn the word salad our business lead told our clients into web apps. It’s truly amazing how someone can say so much and yet so little while convincing people to pay money for it. I ended up just having to best-guess what their business needs were on my own. That experience was honestly valuable in seeing through the blather - Jensen Huang with DLSS 5 the other day was a good example.
It’s by design.
If you “best guess” up a success based on no actionable guidance, they take all the credit, you only did what you were told, like any common peon, they had the “real vision”.
If your best guess falls, well your execution failed their brilliant insight. Not their fault, circumstances failed to get them the right people.
Yup, that’s why I left that job. Was sick of being berated by clients. Now I work in the games industry… I may be a masochist.