New chapter: hero syndrome

content/books/things-i-learnt/_index.md

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 	* [People Get Upset About Code And Architecture Quality 'Cause They Care](people-care)
 	* [You'll Learn About Yourself The Hard Way](learn-about-yourself)
 	* [Pay Attention On How People React To You](watch-reactions)
+	* [Don't Confuse Hero Project With Hero Syndrome](hero-syndrome)
 	* [Beware of Toxic People](toxic-people)
 	* [Beware of Microaggressions](microaggressions)
 	* [Toxic/Aggressive People Are Not Fixable -- Unless It's You](fixable)

content/books/things-i-learnt/hero-syndrome/index.md

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+title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Don't Confuse Hero Project With Hero Syndrome"
+date = 2019-07-25
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "personal", "hero syndrome"]
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+
+Someone that suffers from Hero Syndrome will claim that things won't work
+unless they are carefully watching over everything.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+I've seen this at least two times in my professional life. Usually, those
+people are actually doing so much micromanaging that they are not other
+realize when things are in trouble.
+
+I've even seen someone doing a poor job on _their job_, so things would break
+and then start calling people out that he had to fix it 'cause nobody would.
+
+Don't do that.
+
+I know you can get frustrated when you're the only one realizing things are
+breaking apart, but you can add some
+[monitoring](/books/things-i-learnt/monitoring) to your project, asking your
+manager to show your solution -- you can even mention it on your group/daily
+stand up meeting -- and pointing out to people how to realize when your
+project broke. Suddenly, people will realize how to monitor theirs too.
+
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content/books/things-i-learnt/toxic-people/index.md

@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ realize that you may be seen as toxic 'cause [you don't understand yourself
 yet](/books/things-i-learnt/learn-about-yourself) and the way [people react to
 you](/books/things-i-learnt/watch-reactions).
 
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content/books/things-i-learnt/watch-reactions/index.md

@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ they opening themselves to you or are they closing?
 [^1]: I have this "serious" problem that, depending on the word someone says,
   I recall some lyrics and suddenly start singing it.
 
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