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I cringed reading the article because of how much it reminded me of my younger self in my software engineering career 30 years ago. For what it’s worth, I thin
by 300bps 4y ago
I cringed reading the article because of how much it reminded me of my younger self in my software engineering career 30 years ago.
For what it’s worth, I think your assessment and advice are both spot-on.
I know the original author is far into his career as well but I think especially as we get more senior that humility and valuing other’s perspectives become as important as the technology. Some of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my career were from dismissing the ideas of peers.
- scotty79 4y agoGreat. You learned to mask better. But younger people and some older ones are really not keen on doing that anymore. Humility is great, but automatically accepting the blame for somebody's failure to communicate something to you just because they are allistic ... that is not so great.
- larve 4y agoThanks for reading. I don’t go very much into my day to day workflow, but I actively seek out ideas of my peers and trusting them to do their own mistakes, being at the ready to help out only when things go very wrong. I wrote this article because despite being as humble as I can, these situations still arise. You can get very far doing so, but my biggest mistakes were to not realize that I sometimes actually right.