Why I Built VividMap
A few years ago I was a senior engineer who was doing the job pretty well by the metrics that were visible. Shipping features, writing design docs, unblocking teammates. All the output was there. What I was bad at — and only slowly becoming aware of — was the other 40% of the senior job. The part that doesn’t show up in a performance review as a discrete line item but that determines whether your actual impact is 1x or 3x. The org navigation. The influence. Knowing which conversations needed to happen before a proposal could move. Understanding why some technically good ideas got killed and others with obvious flaws survived. ...