Under "Still doing much technical work": > Focusing on your team’s health and growth will pay much higher dividends than still being half an engineer. This lo

Under "Still doing much technical work": > Focusing on your team’s health and growth will pay much higher dividends than still being half an engineer. This logic is completely flawed as it assumes that the manager has reached a point in their career when they have nothing else to teach and nothing else to learn about coding. I'm an excellent coder and manager but I'm still learning all the time, even after 15 years. My team greatly benefits from me still being in touch with the code. Also, it helps me to make stronger arguments about why we should avoid using certain tools or blindly following hype. The best engineering managers I've ever had were coding alongside the developers. The worst ones were not. This point about "Still doing much technical work" being a problem could not be further from the truth.