@grimalkina @johnmark I don’t know the term “performance orientation”; I’ve always thought of “performance” as a good thing, but also as something dependent on mastery rather than contracting with it. But I have a much clearer mental model of performance in other contexts than working as a software engineer - in a classroom it’s more or less the grades, but as a dancer and circus performer its much easier to observe the skills. At work we don’t talk about “performance” directly