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When the real craft turns out to be diplomacy

I can get a whole room - artists, engineers, producers - lined up behind one design now, and it feels good when it clicks. But I got into this to make things, not to manage people's feelings in meetings. I'm good at the diplomacy, and I'm quietly tired of how much of the job it turned out to be.

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You can align a whole team around a design, and you're tired of how much of the work is diplomacy.

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