Zach LeathermanJun 29, 2023

There is an incredible danger with increasing seniority that you deal entirely in abstractions and don’t build things. Or worse—you think that building things is for juniors.

🚩 You build the platform but nothing on the platform.

🚩 You build the framework but nothing with the framework.

🚩 You devrel but it becomes 100% rel and 0% dev.

Don’t fall into this trap! Be your own customer—keep building 🏆

Show threadMatt Steele

@zachleat agreed, though there’s a corollary risk I’ve seen with leads who go super deep building a tool for their own purposes, then lambast folks who have trouble using it in a different context as “holding it wrong”

“Architecture astronauts” are bad, but beware of “Titan Submersible devs” as well

Jun 29, 2023 at 5:51pmWeb