Ask HN: Do you tend to say “our work” or “my work” more often?

2 points by s-t-876 4 years ago · 2 comments · 2 min read

I’ve yet to find people with similar enough motivations, outlooks, and experience that we can work well together as a strong team.

It’s been easier for me to work solo and look for options to maximize the amount of work that I could get done alone.

Given the mythical man month principle, I feel that I’m right in choosing to delay as much as possible collaborating with other people.

It seems that working as a group is only beneficial when most of the critical decisions have already been made, and there is already a great process in place so that everyone knows exactly what they need to do and there are fewer arguments.

But I also come across people who don’t seem to have any strong sense of individuality at all and no strong desire for independent thinking.

It seems coming from solo runner/climber vs ball player instinct.

People whose natural instinct is wired to play and enjoy soccer/football etc are hard for me to understand.

And they seem to have taken something from growing up and playing as a team into their work, they would say things like:” you can only win as a team and you can’t win alone.”

So I am not sure if my introverted instinct is an advantage or a blindspot.

And since I am currently building a product for other people, I am concerned that I might create too many introverted assumptions and biases in the app, especially considering how people think of their time.

I think the app I’m creating would be great for solo devs, but how many 100% solo devs are out there anyway?

So do you tend to say “ our work” or “my work” more often in thinking about your work time?

Like how do you draw the line between your work, your effort and others effort?

I would appreciate any insight on this topic.