[beaker52]

Over the years I’ve found myself more and more interested in designing systems than paying for existing system design mistakes - I want to help people learn to avoid them. (Coming at this from software engineer).

To me, it’s clear that designing systems is the way to maximum ongoing profit. Yet no-one I’ve come across in the world of business (still clinging on to hope) seems interested in an intentional, on-going system design process - especially when it comes to the software part, and they’re often not very good at the non-software part either.

I find myself a little bit stuck doing hands-on software engineering for companies who’ve gotten themselves into a system design hole. Companies are willing to throw tremendous resources at paying for system design mistakes, but not at avoiding them, or correcting them.

I don’t really know how to profitably find my way upward, except for becoming a manager or a consultant.

[el_nahual]

> To me, it’s clear that designing systems is the way to maximum ongoing profit

This is a huge claim. If true, then the way to profitably find your way upward is similar to what the linked article itself is doing:

Write about it, in a credible way, build your reputation as a person that can drive change leading to results, and then become a consultant.

[photonerd]

Well, yes. Self promotion & selling yourself IS exactly that

[nly]

When you are in a system design hole it's best to keep digging -- every company I ever worked for.