Books

One of my favorite books is Staff Engineer by Will Larson. He does a great job cutting through the weeds and demystifying the job. Not everyone gets their mentor, so I recommend it often to folks on the IC track.

"Preening is doing low-impact, high-visibility work. Many companies conflate high-visibility and high-impact so strongly that they can't distinguish between preening and impact, which is why it's not uncommon to see some companies' senior-most engineers spend the majority of their time doing work that's of dubious value, but that is frequently recognized in company meetings."

One of my favorite books is Staff Engineer by Will Larson. He does a great job cutting through the weeds and demystifying the job. Not everyone gets their mentor, so I recommend it often to folks on the IC track.

"Preening is doing low-impact, high-visibility work. Many companies conflate high-visibility and high-impact so strongly that they can't distinguish between preening and impact, which is why it's not uncommon to see some companies' senior-most engineers spend the majority of their time doing work that's of dubious value, but that is frequently recognized in company meetings."

https://staffeng.com/guides/work-on-what-matters/

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