Mini-thread: How do you push back on unrealistic deadlines and false urgency? or balance having a life with busting your ass on an ambitious project? or argue for quality over shot-cuts? You have to time travel ...
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Apply it to yourself: If you're pushing for quality on a project, you really want just that bit of polish; ask yourself what you'll want or regret about that a year from now. A year later, will you appreciate having waited to get it right? Or will it barely make a difference.
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An interesting way to think about your career and influence is to focus on growing the length of time you should be totally autonomous for, and successfully thinking ahead with visions.
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E.g. a summer intern should be able to be autonomous for about a day, able to work on day-sized chunks of work without guidance. And depth of vision should be about 3 months.
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A new SDE: autonomy = about a week, vision = still around 3 months A career SDE: autonomy = about a sprint, vision = around 6 months A lead SDE: autonomy = 2 or 3 sprints, vision = around 6 months Principal+: autonomy = 6 months, vision = year plus
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Whatever is right for you, be thinking "there" in your head, living in the future, and evaluating every decision and trade-off from that context.
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