Climbing No More

Engineers have been reaching a common ceiling in their careers for decades. The pattern goes like this: an individual contributor gets promoted to a senior software engineer, and their career trajectory levels off. Likewise, an IC who transitions to an Engineering Manager often hits a similar wall, wondering if they’ll ever advance to a senior manager or director. In the […]

Risk Comes First

You probably saw many cliché stuff about risking everything. Not risking is the biggest risk and all. While there is a truth to that, risk needs to be an appetite. Remember what happened with the 2008 global financial crisis. Some took risks. Miscalculated. Misrepresented. Misaligned. So forth. Where did we end up? Entire markets froze. Liquidity vanished overnight. Companies collapsed […]