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Dangerous Advice for Software Engineers


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Most career advice is fake: written to avoid liability, or to impress people. It can be deeply alienating to know things don’t work the way they officially should, but to have nobody to talk about it with. It’s very high-risk, high-reward, and is thus disproportionately useful to strong engineers (and harmful to weaker ones).

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