I was thinking to myself as I read this: "this man has never worked somewhere long enough to be the guy who has to fix things when it breaks", and lo-and-behold, he's had 7 jobs in 8 years.
Aha.. like an engineer who's never supported the product they shipped. Lotta talk.
I agree in spirit with everything he wrote. Except that it's just not real life, even when I've worked for businesses FLUSH with cash to "do the right thing". Even after saying almost his exact words to an otherwise intelligent boss, quantifying my point, and being proven right when I predicted his optimistic plan didn't work. Reality is messy when you peel back the first layer.
Thanks for pointing out. Someone who can’t hold a job for more than a year on average in almost a decade isn’t someone i would take team/engineering advice from.
It really seems to be the case that "those who can, do; those who can't, teach"
The people who are really doing usually aren't wasting their time waxing poetic about stuff like this. They are too busy doing. So we are left with all the not-really-doers to bless us with their incredibly profound musings on things they understand poorly.
The other thing you learn working at one organization for a long time is what matters for that organization (and it’s stakeholders) value. That’s almost never getting one random deployment out the door, or implement new industry best practices/technologies.
I agree in spirit with everything he wrote. Except that it's just not real life, even when I've worked for businesses FLUSH with cash to "do the right thing". Even after saying almost his exact words to an otherwise intelligent boss, quantifying my point, and being proven right when I predicted his optimistic plan didn't work. Reality is messy when you peel back the first layer.