1. Read the book Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson and identify which archetype you are - Tech Lead, Solver, Architect, The Right Hand (Details are in the book)
2. Find an organization which has the career track for your chosen archetype, find a mentor who has gone through that path.
So basically, to advance in career as an IC, you're effectively relying on the good graces of your employer (to have a track for you to advance in).
I think that's a sad reality.
I much prefer a craftsman style - where your output is what's valued. It's similar to an entrepreneur, but does not require the IC to have skill in anything else but his craft, and outsource every other part of running a business.
> So basically, to advance in career as an IC, you're effectively relying on the good graces of your employer (to have a track for you to advance in).
I understand what you mean and understand your frustration with the article.
It makes the mistake of confusing advancing your career and getting a new title and introduces a career ladder out of thin air before presenting as the career ladder.
Still, I think you are complaining about the wrong thing in that advancing your career does indeed mean convincing the people employing you that you could do more and are worth more. That's the only way to get more money and responsibilities which is what people usually mean when they talk of advancing their career. So, if you don't want to manage people, well, you have to build some kind of expertise which the place you work for values because if it's not valued, you are going nowhere.
Figuring out what output the organization values (or, convincing it to value a certain kind of output) is a political challenge. If you simply want to build a thing, devoid from the whims of three organization you're in, you'll eventually have a bad time.
In order to maximize your chances of being a technical leader, you probably need to become a consultant, which definitely isn't for everyone (especially if you hate business development).
What's the difference between leadership and management? You cannot play either role without a good amount of the other. I don't know if you can decouple them completely, but interested to hear from people who have seen this happen well.
The issue is instead of helping the women that actually need these laws, they are mostly exploited by a small minority of urban, educated women to their own ends.
The bitter pill to swallow is that there are people of all sexes and demographics who are shitty out there and whatever set of laws there is will be exploited by them for their own ends. Someone's inevitably going to get the short end of the stick, because the government actually isn't and can't be all knowing. (And nearly inevitably it's the disempowed who get the short end of the stick. Not because they're better than the powerful, but because the powerful are best positioned to take advantage of any social situation.)
But all the laws are doing is allowing entrenched corrupt interests including the police, judiciary and few others to use them to their benefit. At least some reforms have been announced by Indian Supreme court, otherwise I doubt these one sided laws would be considered legal in any other democratic country. Surprisingly reading cases in any of the Global North makes me doubt that is the case.
According to The Apache Software Foundation, its name was chosen "from respect for the various Native American nations collectively referred to as Apache, well-known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance".[15] This was in a context in which it seemed that the open internet -- based on free exchange of open source code -- appeared to be soon subjected to a kind of conquer by proprietary software vendor Microsoft; Apache co-creator Brian Behlendorf -- originator of the name -- saw his effort somewhat parallel that of Geronimo, Chief of the last of the free Apache peoples.[16][17] But it conceded that the name "also makes a cute pun on 'a patchy web server'—a server made from a series of patches".
Correct, the keyword is respect. Apache is a modern label to describe various groups of Native Americans, who were on the verge of being conquered and colonized by an expanding empire. Like your quote says, Apache shares a similar, albeit less existential, plight and mission in software.
As a not-white person, the disrespect being discussed here seems imaginary.
I wonder if the disrespect others see is because of a belief in a hierarchy of victimhood. The kind that grants authority to members whose ancestors who were once oppressed. Authority that justifies private ownership, authority that cannot be questioned, authority that demands greater and greater respect, if not obedience.
Imagine if this was called the Irish Software Foundation or the Palestinian Software Foundation or the Xhosa Software Foundation or the Asheknazi Software Foundation.
> The Irish Software Foundation was named from respect for the Irish people, well-known for their fighting spirit and perseverance against hundreds of years of adversity.
> The Ashkenazi Software Foundation was named from respect for the various Jewish peoples of Europe collectively known as Ashkenazi, well-known for their strong academic traditions.
It would be so blatantly idiotic and racist that nobody would ever do it.
The name "Apache Software Foundation" sucks, and this is long overdue.
> Imagine if this was called the Irish Software Foundation or the Palestinian Software Foundation or the Xhosa Software Foundation or the Asheknazi Software Foundation.
You mean like the "Fighting Irish" from University of Notre Dame? I'm Irish and I've never heard anyone criticise them. In fact they are welcomed to Ireland for St Patricks day parades.
You can find a small group of people to complain about anything, especially in a world where being offended gets you clicks and attention.
You said "It would be so blatantly idiotic and racist that nobody would ever do it". People have being doing exacty this forever and, while it may be sometimes cringe-worthy or even insensitive, I would contend it is not inherently a bad thing to find inspiration in other peoples culture and history.
> The Irish Software Foundation was named from respect for the Irish people, well-known for their fighting spirit and perseverance against hundreds of years of adversity.
oh no that would be horrible I bet the Irish would be so mad.
IIRC wordpress does this for new hires. Everyone spends their first few months in Customer support, which is a nice middle path to the extreme you are suggesting.
This is also good for new hires as they get to a grounding on what matters (customer experience).
my first job ever did this. qa and customer support were combined which made it the best place to learn all the ins and outs of a very complicated product. after 3-6 months i had excellent knowledge of how the product actually functioned on the ground and how the customers approached it.
highly recommended as a training scheme! especially in cases where engineers have a lot of influence on product design.
(although, in a high volume ticket oriented environment, or a highly structured testing environment, the benefits fall off dramatically. the big value was setting things up from scratch in different contexts and seeing where people struggled)
Rotations into Support (for a week IIRC) once a year used to happen as it was deemed important, until the day it was no longer important and was stopped.
Johnson Controls (they make automotive interiors among other things), has every employee work on the production line for their first two weeks. Even the CEO.
It’s not that simple, a lot of places in the world don’t have the means to preserve archeological artifacts. Also past a certain date I’m of the opinion it’s a shared human history (because the more we go back the more we share ancestors) that modern nations have no rights to claim exclusivity on, here for example the culture that produced the Rosetta Stone doesn’t exist anymore. Sure geographically it would make more sense, but as long as anyone can have access to it and it’s well preserved I’m fine with it.
I agree somewhat. Also, it's not always clear who the most legitimate heirs are in these cases. For example, why the Egyptian government and not, say, the Coptic Church? I don't have a source but I seem to recall reading once that Copts are genetically more similar to Ancient Egyptians than other modern Egyptian, who are predominantly of Arab descent.
I would rather go to the places these antiquities were from and visit in a museum there.
Another thing worth pointing out, the British Museum was founded with the objective of proving events written in the bible were based on historical events. Let's air all this dirty laundry while we are at it.
I dunno—you set out to prove something about some battle recorded in the Bible, or whatever, you're gonna end up uncovering some real history (maybe even the kind you wanted!) probably, so there's a substantial connection to reality to drive the overall process, even if there's strong bias in the mission. The evolution (har, har) of that into something like a secular museum has a clear path to follow.
You set out to prove the Earth was made in 6 days a few thousand years ago, you're... likely not gonna be coming up with much that's connected to reality, even by accident.
I've never seen that particular claim about the museum - it was set up to hold Sloane's collection alongside the Cottonian and Harleian libraries. Where is it from? Is this a misremembering of the tale about the discovery of the flood tablet?
Not that I disagree with the general sentiment, but I'd be surprised if a National Museum of any country didn't have looted treasures. I'm not sure why the British are always singled out for this, and other countries conveniently ignored.
Other countries are not ignored, it's just that their looting pales in comparison and British culture gets talked about more by virtue of being in English.
By that same token it would be ok if I stole a bunch of jewelry from a bunch of different places, as long as I wear it all together in an awesome ensemble for all to see.
This was true for Industrial Automation when machines automated physical work and humans could do knowledge work.
Now machines are on the verge of automating knowledge there would be no work left for humans.