When your taste is ahead of your skill, you are not happy with the work you produce.
Stop a minute and think about it: all the times you are dissatisfied with your work, it just means that your taste for what is good is ahead of what you are able to create.
This conflict is good — in fact, it is what allows your skill to grow. You have a reference of... See more
An Elegant Puzzle , by Will Larson, on the community book club.
It is the best book I ever read about engineering management, and the reason comes down to one thing: systems thinking. This is a wildly overused term, but Will gives a very precise definition for it.