This is good advice but it has one flaw that makes it unrealistic for most software engineers.
"Scheming takes practice and power, and neither of those things are available to software engineers."
Most of us are terrible at scheming
not only, not even primarily, because of a lack of practice. It is a lack a of information.
All the advice from the article assumes you know what the people above you really want. Reliable information about this is the precondition for blatant scheming as well as the subtle influencing the article promotes, yet is the hardest part to achieve. Make a mistake their and you'll actively hurt your career.
Hiding your real motives is a main part of politics and you should expect that anyone above you will do it to some degree. Navigating that well is simply not in the skill set of most technical peope who generally appreciate openness.
"Scheming takes practice and power, and neither of those things are available to software engineers."
Most of us are terrible at scheming not only, not even primarily, because of a lack of practice. It is a lack a of information.
All the advice from the article assumes you know what the people above you really want. Reliable information about this is the precondition for blatant scheming as well as the subtle influencing the article promotes, yet is the hardest part to achieve. Make a mistake their and you'll actively hurt your career.
Hiding your real motives is a main part of politics and you should expect that anyone above you will do it to some degree. Navigating that well is simply not in the skill set of most technical peope who generally appreciate openness.