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I have lived as the vindictive policymaker. I was that person. Earnestly striving to make things better, vacillating between rage and despair. Completely morally just in context, but wholly empty in solution durable. I have been the emotions. And it produced nothing. Only being better mattered.

In the chaos of the undesigned, with understanding of possibility under an architect, you should be able to find optimization through vision. My job is Security Engineer, but my job is not Security. It's producing a better solution that is secure. Which is better because it simply is better.

As junior staff, you will misunderstand engineering and safety as in conflict. But they're not. You've simply approached the problem too late. Safe designs can be even more elegant. They can add complexity, but which eliminates absurdity and indeterminacy. You have to understand beauty first.

This is a hard, hard truth. There are a couple of tough fights I’ve had in the tech ecosystem I’m a part of, trying to hold back bad solutions to real problems. Never worked; for better or worse a better solution has to be offered.

We struggled with a poor perception of the IT department for years. We have been on a path to fix that perception and the thing that shifted it the most… a really friendly internal self-help wiki, and the ability for users to manage software, printers, and *some* privilege escalations themselves.