When you only do growth work, when it’s not your normal job, is selfish. You should make sure that you either use leftover time or only use an allocated amount of time.
When you do too much growth work, you’re not progressing or contributing to the overall base tasks of a project. Not only could you be seen, and arguable are, selfish, you could even be a bad team member, perceived as only doing fun, optional, freeing work.
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Extra is that it must be aligned with your Normal Work
— Quote from Always do Extra - Ben Northrop highlights
Shirking our Normal Work in favor of Extra might be more interesting, but it makes us shitty teammates at best, and unethical at worst.
— Quote from Always do Extra - Ben Northrop highlights