For so much of your career, success is making the right decision, and it takes a while to realize that at a certain point making the decisions isn’t the work. Ritu Vincent described that transition well, It was also on that project where my manager helped me understand that my first impulse as a tech lead didn’t scale. Initially, I was thinking, “I’ll break it into twenty pieces, assign out eighteen pieces, and keep the two hardest for myself,” and my manager pushed me to delegate the hard pieces to the team to stretch and develop them.