In the end, this is a question of judgement. Everyone doing senior work in any field is doing judgement. What are the pros and cons of doing this thing? What a

In the end, this is a question of judgement. Everyone doing senior work in any field is doing judgement. What are the pros and cons of doing this thing? What are the short and long term consequences? There's not actually that much we can generalise about judgement itself. Did you think about it, considering all the tradeoffs? Did things work out? So a lot of the high level advice I see in the Internet is basically just turning the same stones over and over. I feel like the most useful articles are actually about specific things like how to write a memory allocator. Those are more like sharing experience that can be used as the raw material of making good decisions.