Not necessarily. Recalcitrance is the flip side of this coin. But it tends to break down when five different people are telling you in five different ways how you’re fucking things up for everybody by being stubborn.

I’ve learned to send the new guy to ask instead of parroting back why we aren’t going to be allowed to change something stupid. Because once in a while they disappear for an hour and then come back with news that we’re finally going to fix it.

We all have to look at the same code. The person who writes it specifically for their own tastes has an undue advantage over everyone else because the code exactly matches their crazy. But if you write code everyone else can also read, you only slow yourself down a little and double or triple everyone else’s productivity. Or you can keep being the selfish asshole who uses appeals to authority. Don’t be surprised if you start encountering coup attempts.