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Comment by xyzelement

What you're saying is important for everyone to internalize. I'll spin it like this:

Your job satisfaction/pay are a function of your impact. Your impact is a function of your leverage.

If you're a "pure coder" who doesn't have any of the other skills you mentioned, your output is incredibly limited. At best, you produce a day's worth of code in a day, but you also require someone to manage you closely to make sure you code the right stuff.

The more of these other skills you have, the more you can (a) work independently (b) make others more productive and (c) make sure your team/business is doing the right things and (d) drive overall efficiency.

The more of these things you do, you become orders of magnitude more impactful than a pure coder.

parent xyzelement 5 years ago

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