“Software is a temporary garden whose fate is inextricably intertwined with its gardeners.”

It’s 2020, and I find myself 12 years into my career, as a Senior Software Engineer, trying to figure out what’s next. I found an article on Hacker News, by Swizec Teller, entitled “Why senior engineers get nothing done”. It articulated very well my experience moving up from and entry level engineer to an incredibly experienced senior engineer. The main idea is as you move up the experience ladders in software engineering, you spend an increasing amount of your time assisting others, collaborating, and coordinating.