I believe you need to continue writing code to stay in the engineering mindset. Otherwise it's very easy to lose touch. It would be a superhuman manager who is

I believe you need to continue writing code to stay in the engineering mindset. Otherwise it's very easy to lose touch. It would be a superhuman manager who is able to maintain their engineering practise, whilst managing all the soft skills (negotiation, politics, communication, presentation) that a manager needs to do. In my opinion, the skillets are diametrically opposed. One deals with precise certainties, the other on soft human ambiguities.