The Peter Principle is the satirical theory that employees are generally promoted to their level of incompetence.
#OnThisDay 1974: Its author, Dr Laurence J. Peter, explained how he first got the idea and what can be done about it.
My masculinity is secured. I admit that I have a man crush and is this guy. Find someone who can better distill cultural, political & financial affairs, I’ll consider having a fraction of admiration for that person. Until then, @profgalloway has my ❤️
Hotwiring Rails expresses the desire to gift a lone full-stack developer all the tools they need to build the next Basecamp, GitHub, or Shopify. Not what a team of dozens or hundreds can do if they have millions in VC to buy specialists. Renaissance tech for renaissance people.
When parents raise a child, they install elements of their psyche in them. When one of those elements is damaged, the damage is usually passed on. So self-improvement isn't selfish—it's repairing the "family psyche," which improves the lives of all the generations downstream.