Review: Give and Take
In the world of Adam Grant's Give and Take , people can be divided into roughly 3 camps: * Takers, who look to take from others for their own benefit, or at least see success...
Career
Seniority, as a Measure to Increasingly Undefined Problems
Recently I've come across a couple of articles that go into what higher levels of software engineers do. Namely, the levels beyond Senior Software Engineer[1]—Staff and eventually Principal Software Engineering positions—...
The Meaning from Work Can Make Early Retirement Tricky
In my own research to better understand personal finances and create financial models to solve for my own needs, I came across the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement within Reddit. As far as I...
The Difficulty in Career Planning
A while ago, an engineer asked me if I could provide advice and guidance for them in planning their own career. Specifically, they wanted something that could be revisited at a regular cadence—monthly, quarterly,...