# Sujith Jay Nair - A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work (Highlights)  ## Highlights - A big part of a staff engineer’s job in a platform team is to figure out what the team should build next - I like to call that “inventing work”. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3tbkyb7448qza27qhbbenyd)) ^1059605676 - This one’s simple and sometimes effective: if you hear your manager (or their manager, or further up) talk about something twice in a week, there is likely an unaddressed concern behind it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m3tc6assh4aw1k1v9zfn7pzb)) ^1059606586