On: You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes

[dlphn___xyz]

an employees value is being predictable

[Waterluvian → dlphn___xyz]

That sounds like one of those reductionist things believed by a Silicon Valleyist who doesn't know there's a world outside tech. Or maybe a project manager who depends on reducing everything to point scores.

There are many many roles where you need to be able to make mistakes. Predictability is

[dlphn___xyz → Waterluvian]

in my experience companies are very risk adverse - you're better off doing the bare minimum because any mistakes will ruin your career trajectory

[closeparen → dlphn___xyz]

When we need automatons to do a job, we write ourselves some automatons.