> It's so funny how all the business advice is about how to be a good slave rather than what really gets you ahead.
This is almost literally the opposite of what the article is advocating.
The author is suggesting that should you complete the work required of you then you should spend any spare time you might have on things that benefit _you_ rather than necessarily benefiting your employer. The author spends the first half of the article explicitly distinguishing this from doing additional, unrequested work that contributes obvious business value. The caveats the author provides are to encourage people to do this in a way that isn't going to get them into trouble, pretty much.
Relationship building for engineers nearly always happens outside of the context of the actual work, so I don't think that's particularly relevant.
This is almost literally the opposite of what the article is advocating.
The author is suggesting that should you complete the work required of you then you should spend any spare time you might have on things that benefit _you_ rather than necessarily benefiting your employer. The author spends the first half of the article explicitly distinguishing this from doing additional, unrequested work that contributes obvious business value. The caveats the author provides are to encourage people to do this in a way that isn't going to get them into trouble, pretty much.
Relationship building for engineers nearly always happens outside of the context of the actual work, so I don't think that's particularly relevant.