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Review: Give and Take

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 as a zero-sum game…

Seniority, as a Measure to Increasingly Undefined Problems

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—are fairly common within engineering…

The Meaning from Work Can Make Early Retirement Tricky

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 can tell, the main idea…

The Difficulty in Career Planning

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, annually—with milestones towards some…