Delegate

Remember your first time.
That moment when you can finally tell someone else what to do.
At first, it feels great. A happy moment.
But it quickly turns.

You delegate a task you know you could finish in minutes.
You remind yourself, it is about learning.
You tear yourself away from over-instructing.
You let them figure it out.
You even compromise on time, thinking, if I did it myself, it would already be done.

Then you get the code back.
A hot mess.

You spend hours going back and forth.
You wonder, how can this be?
The code is unmanageable, inefficient, missing first principles.
Deadlines are being missed.
You want to dive in and fix it yourself.
And you know you could.

But you hold back, not because you can't do it,
but because you are building something bigger.
You are coaching.
You are removing roadblocks.
You are multiplying impact.

It does not mean you are above doing the work.
It means you are making a choice.
Sometimes you dive in.
Sometimes you stand back.
The skill is knowing when.

That is the work.
It just looks different now.