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When the craft you trained for becomes mostly negotiation

I can walk into a room of stakeholders now and walk out with everyone behind one design direction. It's a real skill and I know it. But I trained for years to be a designer, and lately most of my days are spent negotiating, not making. I'm good at it, and I'm tired of how little of the actual craft is left.

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You can align a whole team around a design, and you're tired of how much of it is negotiation.

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