Competence can put you in a lonely place. In the best case, you get talented junior developers to train, and then you lose them because they’re too good to be c

Competence can put you in a lonely place. In the best case, you get talented junior developers to train, and then you lose them because they’re too good to be concentrated with you in one part of the organization, or because they realize how badly underpaid they are. Regardless, you may never reach a point where anybody can meaningfully critique your work. Edit: this is not to disparage competence. It sure beats the alternatives. Go read a book. Please don’t let it be Design Patterns, that one has already done enough damage.