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This reminds me of the WWI and WWII flying Aces. Germany had a lot more flying aces and lot higher "highscores" for their pilots than the allied or entente forc
by dtx1 4y ago
This reminds me of the WWI and WWII flying Aces. Germany had a lot more flying aces and lot higher "highscores" for their pilots than the allied or entente forces. The reasons was simple: Germany send their high value pilots out a lot more to get these results, risking losing their best pilots, while the british deliberatly made sure their best pilots immediately became instructors teaching their skills to other pilots.
Bob should stop doing any work himself and instead focus on teaching other developers. Most programming time is spend being stuck on problems and debugging, the mere task of coding is often trivial for most devs. A high achiever like bob could propably help people solve issues they are stuck on really fast. That in turn would 10x return the performance he can achieve himself.
- unregistereddev 4y agoThis is a very good challenge for Bob. It is very much a "practice teaching and see how it goes" thing. It may not be something Bob is good at, though it may be something he can improve. Part of the value of a technical career path is to let high flyers teach experienced developers. While some people are good at training, it is its own skill. Some advanced IC's forget how to teach the basics, but are good at teaching advanced skills. To be clear, I'm agreeing with you. I just wanted to add the caveat that Bob might fit best as a staff developer who trains senior engineers. He may or may not also be good at training juniors.