@rakyll@IanColdwater Staff and Principal engineer is about decision making and relationship building and mentorship and clearly explaining complexity and quality writing.
It’s almost a completely different job, and I’m so thankful for my liberal arts background for teaching me a lot of these skills.
What will get you to principal is removing chaos, unblocking others, fighting for things to be built in the right order, fighting scope creep, having backbone while knowing when to delegate decision making.
It is hard to grasp for some engineers early in their careers what took them here won't take them there. Shipping features will probably can take you to senior, shipping 10x more features is not how you'll become a principal.
@AdamGraber I heard an argument this week that leaders often use fear to motivate their followers. It’s effective, it works, and antithetical to walking by faith and exercising perfect love.
A colleague told me about the docker “scratch” image, which I hadn’t heard of (but had been wanting to hear about it). This inspired me to try to create the smallest possible runnable docker image. Results here: https://t.co/vmc0D0Bq6Z. And here: https://t.co/OlvZKqaHoY