Scaling Work Starts with Making It Legible

You’ve seen the quote:

“They build in silence and let the results speak loud.”

But inside a company, silence doesn’t scale.

Because results don’t speak—interpretation does.

And what spreads?

Not the most valuable work.

The most legible.

If your team’s output is going to create leverage—across orgs, quarters, and adjacent roadmaps—it needs to be:

• Framed in context others already care about

• Translated into language non-builders can reuse

• Timed to land before decisions are locked in

Not to self-promote.

To reduce friction and increase surface area.

Quiet work might hit production.

Narrated work shapes direction.

And at scale, direction compounds more than execution.

So ask:

What’s one thing your team shipped this quarter that no one’s building on?

Then ask:

Is it because the work isn’t useful?

Or because we never made the value transferable?

Fix that.

Because high-leverage engineering isn’t just about what you build.

It’s about what others can build on top of it.