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Comment by nness

It's hard to be critical of the content — if you take it from the perspective of a mid-senior developer within a non-Big Tech role who is starting to see into the leadership decisions being made or pathways available to them, it's probably true to their experience.

But I would caveat that the "hell is other people" and "learn to not-obey" section are recommending behaviours that at best the organisation's people managers, and at worst leadership, would recognise as "career limiting" — and would end that person being stuck in place or on a performance plan. The stance is confrontational and not collaborative — somewhat myopic.

"Business has a short memory. take advantage of it." — Very true, but only when it is adventitious to do so.

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