[gniv]

This is the point I was going to make as well. I think the article is written for high-agency people, which are rare in my experience, even in tech.

Also related: The Peter Principle: people get promoted to their level of incompetence. We think we want something but then realize the job is actually harder than we thought, so we do a bad job (or burn out).

So to the excellent points in the article I would add an introspection about the level we want to achieve and how to continue working at that level, assuming we don't hate the job.

[throwaway2037]

    > I think the article is written for high-agency people, which are rare in my experience, even in tech.

While your assessment about the article may be true, high-agency people are common in niche careers. Anything that is extremely high performing (emergency medicine, Wall Street trading floor, elite law firms, entrepreneurs of any kind (especially non-tech!), etc.) will have plenty of high-agency people. Plus, this board is full of high-agency people. At this point in 2024, "tech" is a pretty much meaningless term, similar to "Europe". What does it even mean? The landscape is much too wide and diverse at this point.