StoicDev

The team announces it is breaking up the old monolith. Half the room is excited, half is already drafting objections. Two months later the plan changes again, and some of the people who loved it now hate it.

Marcus takes a quieter position. Change is no evil. Staying the same is no good. Neither one, on its own, tells you whether the work is going well.

That sounds obvious until you notice how fast you label things. A new framework is either the future or a fad. A reorg is either a fresh start or a disaster. You decide before you know what it is, and then you spend weeks defending the decision.

Try not deciding for a while. When something shifts, look at what it actually asks of you this week: which tickets change, which code moves, who you now need to talk to. That is usually smaller and easier to handle than the story you were about to tell yourself.