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The people trusted with the work that matters are rarely the ones with the flashiest files. Paying attention is a craft, and you can practice it.

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Eric Jordan

Relationships are craft

The senior people you admire are almost never the ones with the flashiest files. They are the ones the room wants there when the work gets hard. That is not an accident of personality. It is a skill, built the same way any craft is, through attention and repetition, and most designers never think to practice it.

We treat the relationship layer as something that happens around the work. It is the work. The trust you build with the people you make things with decides which things you get to make at all.

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