Invisible Work Isn't Valuable Work

00:36:27 — Visibility: Invisible Work Isn’t Valuable Work

Matthew emphasizes the critical importance of visibility in professional relationships: if your stakeholders don’t know what you’re working on, it’s not really that valuable. At fully-remote companies like HashiCorp, being vocal in Slack channels was essential to building presence. You shouldn’t use relationships as a means to an end, but you should nurture them because they have genuine benefits — even if your explicit goal isn’t to extract those benefits directly.