@PIXELHEHE What a great and novel idea.
For what its worth - try and balance welcoming new players/talent. Walled gardens are overrated and ultimately detrimental to the scene. GL pixelbox.
if you are new to swe and feel you are bad at your job, you are probably right
ask yourself
what am i bad at?
how can i improve?
what should i learn one level deeper?
stop being helpless, blaming imposter syndrome, you are bad and that is ok. you can get better
I mentioned a “bell curve meme” in one of my internal posts at Meta along these lines, but for an established product the ends would be “just make it better” in contrast to the over strategizing.
"What should I measure when the CEO asks for engineering metrics?" is probably the most frequently recurring eng leadership question, and connects into a larger, somewhat nebulous topic: how should you measure engineering organizations?
Some notes! lethain.com/measuring-engi…
The next phase of the tech industry will be very different, as these boom & bust cycles leave deep scars in management teams, VCs, & founders.
The age of excess & entitlement ending this hard will result in a decade (or two) of intense focus, austerity, & exceptionalism.
A mentor of mine used to tell me all the time:
“You can’t cash a pat on the back, Louie. You can only cash a check.
So when they tell you great job, say:
‘thanks, but I can’t cash that. Would you consider giving me something I can cash instead?’”
“if you don’t like it why are you still tweeting”
because I fucking love things that suck ass. I went to law school. I work as a journalist. I have almost finished playing the entirety of mass effect andromeda. I’m a dumb piece of shit