I find it very useful to be able to do everyone else’s job — it helps you learn how they work and what they need, and it helps even more when you need their job done, but they won’t do it themselves. If you made something new and those you made it for can’t be bothered to start using it, go ahead and integrate it into their system. It worked for Intel back when they made their first 32-bit CPU and had their people add support for that CPU in Microsoft’s compiler — I’ve met someone from that Intel team. For some reason, many resent the idea of working on someone else’s system, and think of it as charity uncalled for in the workplace. Well, did Intel do Microsoft’s job to help poor struggling Microsoft, or did they do it to benefit from Microsoft’s success?…