The practical advice in here resonates very strongly with my experience, I like the analysis a lot.
The philosophy about what "shipping" is... Presupposes that your motivation for working in big tech is to get to L9 and make 7 figures or whatever. Dunno about that. (Also I suspect there's a ceiling on where you can get by being really good at shipping).
I like to think I do this shit on my own terms, I have my own goals. Pleasing leadership and getting good ratings is very often instrumental to those goals (and money is great) but I think I still get to decide what shipping means to me.
The philosophy about what "shipping" is... Presupposes that your motivation for working in big tech is to get to L9 and make 7 figures or whatever. Dunno about that. (Also I suspect there's a ceiling on where you can get by being really good at shipping).
I like to think I do this shit on my own terms, I have my own goals. Pleasing leadership and getting good ratings is very often instrumental to those goals (and money is great) but I think I still get to decide what shipping means to me.