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I am ambivalent about this. You often see people getting public credit for something that was actually done by a lot of people working together which is also not good. Maybe a team photo would be nice. My favorite stories are where you hear the perspective of the different contributors.

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But then that one very eloquent guy gets all the play in the stories and his contribution seems out-sized while implicitly diminishing the contributions of others, especially the really camera-awkward guy who made a huge contribution but no reporters can handle listening to him long enough to tell his story.

In good teams the eloquent guy heaps adequate praise on the camera awkward guy to make it known how large their contribution was.

This happens, but not enough.

Personally that seems like a better alternative to the PR downplay of engineering accomplishments to make space for the praise and glory of managers and funders.

SpaceX and Tesla are good examples for this. If you read the news about them you could easily thing that Musk is pretty much developing everything in his basement.

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