Great article, reminds me of someone I know.

One quibble,

> If your Wildcard is a Product Manager, their team will ship feature-complete products on time, but without the neatly organized armada of JIRA tickets or burn-down charts you wished to see. The friction of keeping things organized is less stimulating than the instant feedback of just doing the work.

“Just doing the work” is the point. The fact that the work can be finished without JIRA tickets and burn down charts is because those things are stupid ways to manage product development, not because Wildcards get shit done.

The problem with JIRA in particular is that it encourages a focus on tasks rather than goals, and so the tasks become the goals.