The article implicitly conditions the strategy space on remaining an employee (or an employee-equivalent contractor) of a tech company. Somewhat surprisigly it

The article implicitly conditions the strategy space on remaining an employee (or an employee-equivalent contractor) of a tech company. Somewhat surprisigly it omits the relatively common option of becoming a long term planner (a.k.a. "paper pusher"), whether in product or engineering. The options space outside of the Borg includes the following areas: - Becoming an engineering associate at a non technical organization, for example by automating or adapting standard tech tools to legacy industries. - Becoming a researcher (whether in an engineering field or one that requires engineering ability, e.g. computational biology - warmly recommended, BTW) - Starting your own business that creates platforms/business cases that would otherwise not exist.