careers

Coming in terms with your uniqueness Humans are social creatures. We thrive in communities, in groups of people, in our families. We benefit from feeling a sense of belonging in those groups and in order to achieve that we try to fit in as best we can. Here lies internal conflict though. How many concessions do you do in order to fit in? How much of your unique self do you give away?...

The career ladder. Everyone wants to climb it. I did write before that for young George, and many other developers, the career of a developer looked like this: Junior Mid level Senior Manager VP of Engineering CTO Elon Musk. After talking with a lot of people this progression sounds like what most employees and organisations have in mind. People go through reviews talking about achieving that elusive middle ground of senior developer....