Comment by bjackman

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.