If you are being overlooked, the instinct is to do more.
More projects, more hours, more proof of how much you carry. It feels like the responsible answer, and it is almost always the wrong one.
The people who advance are rarely the ones who did the most.
Watch closely and they are often doing less than you, visibly, while being read as more. Not because they are better at the work. Because they are better understood. The room has a clear, repeatable sentence for what they bring, and you do not, so your larger pile of work gets filed under reliable and theirs gets filed under ready.
Doing more does not fix that, because the problem was never the amount. It was the read. More work just gives the room more of the same thing it was already misinterpreting.
Below, is a real case: someone who was doing the most on the team and going nowhere, what the read on him actually was, and the shift that moved it without adding a single hour.
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