[jstummbillig]

The more important question that programmers, who are not product makers, often miss is: Are you solving real problems?

It's a slightly orthogonal way of thinking about this but if you are solving real problems, you get away with so much shit, it's unreal.

Maybe Google is not gonna let you code monkey on their monorepo, but you do not have to care. There's enough not-google in the world, and enough real problems.