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Date: 2025-06-02 Source: https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/dont-let-your-best-ideas-die-in-silence

Say you have an idea, something that could change your company's or product's trajectory and fast-track your career growth.

Say you have an idea, something that could change your company’s or product’s trajectory and fast-track your career growth.
Most engineers follow the default playbook: chart a plan, pitch it to their leadership, and then wait for the result.
But this does a disservice to the idea and undersells its potential.
We engineers often worry that sharing an idea widely will seem pushy, needy, or worse, political.
Politics is when multiple people want the same thing, but only one can have it.
Influence becomes necessary to tip the outcome.

Date: 2025-06-02 Source: https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/dont-let-your-best-ideas-die-in-silence

Say you have an idea, something that could change your company's or product's trajectory and fast-track your career growth.

Say you have an idea, something that could change your company’s or product’s trajectory and fast-track your career growth.
Most engineers follow the default playbook: chart a plan, pitch it to their leadership, and then wait for the result.
But this does a disservice to the idea and undersells its potential.
We engineers often worry that sharing an idea widely will seem pushy, needy, or worse, political.
Politics is when multiple people want the same thing, but only one can have it.
Influence becomes necessary to tip the outcome.