Or where you want to go if you want to hide your incompetence behind even bigger incompetence
I agree, the same thing happens in the corporate world.
If you really can't be fucked, be a chaos vulture. Embrace the confusion. Does the company have non-existent onboarding? Poor management? Little direction, follow-up, or reviews? Constantly changing & capricious goals? These are the hallmarks of a bad company... so revel in their misery. Actively seek these places out. This gives you room to coast, to avoid being on anyone's radar, etc. Restrained mediocre effort will be considered "going above and beyond." Even if you slip, you can easily blame "the system", like everyone else at the place. Every single day, week, month of this is more money in your pocket. Stretch it out as long as possible.
Sounds like a nightmare but people do it.