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Best PSA in a while. I left a job once largely out of friction with the top decision-maker (not actually the CTO, a director-level, but functionally the same thing) where there was tons of fear around well-established technologies that the decision-maker had never gotten around to learning and pretty obviously didn't trust that we had a handle on it. The visible lack of trust led to defensiveness all around (us because we weren't feeling trusted, him because he thought we thought he was dumb), and nobody who championed those ideas were there six months later and the company's tech-debt hole had only grown deeper.