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It’s a paradox: being inside a process for a long time, we lose our objectivity. Being completely outside helps but yet we still miss what’s inside.

How shall we deal with a lack of objectivity?

Have you ever noticed that people tend to mess up the concepts of why vs. what for?

Contemplating in the language other than your mothertongue opens pretty interesting prospects.

The evolutionary step from Mid to Senior developer is not that obvious as from Junior to Mid.
Why? – because this transition is less technical.

This post is a cumulative answer to the question “Why aren’t I the Senior SWE so far?”

For all the old-schools, here is the Lines98 game.

Some teams encourage new ideas. The other ones tend to bury any initiative. Let’s think:

1. What kind of teams made you enjoy sharing your concepts?
   What kind of teams discouraged you from doing this?
2. Why?

Let's take a fresh look onto the traditional "hard skills"-vs.-"soft skills" division.

A story of a really annoying bug.
Spoiler: reproducible only on production builds; locally works well 🤡