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Argues that hiring and recognition favor self-promotion wins visibility over actual contribution, causing skilled but quiet engineers to be overlooked. Claims that diversity brings cross-domain skills which measurably improve problem solving and experimentation. Warns that overvaluing creates dead weight by concentrating pay and power in visible names, harming budgets, team morale, and retention; undervalued people instead vote with their feet and leave.
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