https://marco.org/2007/08/28/pretty-much-95-percent-of-everything-you-do-at
Pretty much 95 percent of everything you do at Microsoft is in some way feeding the beast. You’re working on Microsoft, not your product. You’re not directly causing your product to become better. You’re trying to create the meetings that will cause the things to happen that will cause at some point some part of some product to be better.