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Questionable Advice: Is there a path back from CTO to engineer?

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

I received this question in the comments section of my piece on The Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum, and figured I might as well answer it. It definitely isn’t a question I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about or anything. 🥰 As a former CTO coming off a sabbatical and wanting to go […]
29th Jul 2022

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