> Someone with 1 year of experience 10 times, does not a senior engineer make. And in the right environment, an engineer can suffer through 10 years of experien

> Someone with 1 year of experience 10 times, does not a senior engineer make. And in the right environment, an engineer can suffer through 10 years of experience in 1 year. to give a familiar shorthand to this, I have been describing the "algorithm of career growth" by "Big L notation" https://www.swyx.io/big-l-notation https://www.swyx.io/big-l-notation as a way to convert from years of experience to actual skills/capabilities. people with a very high Big L learn much quicker than those with sublinear Big L. Considering that we only get one life/career it surprises me that more people do not actively design their Big L trajectory.