Software Career Anti-Patterns

I see this as highlighting something else - differing philisophies with goals and values and talking past one another. Many in software aren&#x27;t interested in optimizing career itself but the skills for their own sake.<p>Similiarly &quot;outcomeism&quot; vs &quot;skills&quot; is another area of differences in views. Talking only of outcomes to a skills person can seem charlatanish - making promises without the hows and important fine distinctions. Similiarly to the outcomes skills details don&#x27;t matter - while ignoring the details which lead to the outcome and even treating them with contempt.

Generic title but article is mostly about is speaking at conferences is waste of time. The answer would depend obviously on who is in the audience and if talk gets recorded.

This is an essay about maximizing personal outcomes. Maximize for income, for impact, for prestige, for a software outcome, you can differentiate on all these things but you are still essentially a thief.<p>Software is a collaboration and I would submit that most engineers have accepted this for one reason or another. The outliers who maximize their own personal outcomes are useless.