There’s a magic component to rule breaking that a lot of online advice doesn’t usually talk about: You have to actually be right. Your ideas have to be good. Companies don’t want everyone breaking the rules because a lot of devs don’t have the engineering skill to back it up.

So if you start operating as a rogue agent then make sure you are good. Tom Cruise (stuntman and actor) had a quote I love- “Don’t be careful. Be competant.”