[szundi]

Fwiw I was the CEO of my startup (obviously?). I could not even get why people are fighting each other, I was so naive and bad at communication.

Now I’m called a supercommunicator at the same company just because I took it seriously and took attention and vigorously checked out results of my communication attempts.

Yeah it was like 10 years, but first 1-2 with this mindset started with almost panicking to despair to be interesting to have more and more success. Now I almost enjoy it when I don’t think about how this is about fighting enthropy and finding out who is silly in what way later to counteract that.

Might be even fun.

Edit: most fun part when you just became quite good and got it and the troublemakers are forgot you on the loser shelf, trying baby level politics stuff on you just because they are lazy. Yeah, then you can root them out and have a nice company.

[charlie0]

I get were you are coming from. Focusing on comm skills is a big branch of a decision tree in terms future paths because it opens up possibility of joining the managerial class (CEO/CTO being potential options).

What convinced me against going down this branch for the time being is a quote from Naval Ravikant.

> No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.

If I really enjoy tech stuff and not comms, I should focus on the tech stuff. Of course, I still need to have a good baseline at comms, but it doesn't have to be great.

[spacephysics]

What are some of the politics stuff you mention?

I’ve been a senior engineer (definition loose) at a company I work at, and owner of a side business start up.

Politics at the startup are a bit easier, less than 10 people and such. But at the large company I’m trying to make sure I’m not caught off guard and be taken advantage of/other toxic politic stuff.