Just get used to rejection, until you become enlightened enough to realize that life is suffering and you only have value insofar as how useful/reliable to others you are.

Anyone telling you otherwise is stunting your growth.

People are too non-confrontational. From experience, you have to mention this is impacting your other work to them cc’ing boss or verbally in stand-up, particularly if you’ve already documented what they have to do

That’s why I always roll my eyes when you have these wealthy retired philanthropists like the Gates going on podcasts preaching about how important xyz issue is, when they don’t give a damn about tax reform that can actually create a better standard of living floor for society so that there’s more opportunity for people to come up with a better solution to xyz.

But charities make idiots think these rich people care.