A toxic person kills, and by kills I mean totally destroys teamwork.
Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.
A milestone is less date and more definition.
You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.
Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.
If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.