I.M. Wright’s “Hard Code”

Let’s say you’ve been working for a while and saving your money.

As I’ve written about before, Everybody leaves.

Do you get tired of being right all the time?

With all the recent layoffs, some targeting low performers, how do you know if you’re doing your job well enough to avoid losing it?

Everyone has a certain vibe they give off.

We all make mistakes, all the time, every day.

One of the surprises awaiting you when you return from summer vacation may be a new boss.

Many tech companies are reducing their population of middle managers, increasing the average span of control (direct reports per manager).

It seems like all software is a service these days.

Microsoft, Google, and the other tech firms may have documents describing the expectations for different levels of software developers, but no one needs to ask, “What is a software engineer?”