Short Fat Engineers Are Undervalued

 By substack - 2021-02-28

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Professionals supposedly come in two shapes: either short and fat, or tall and skinny, meaning their skill set is either broad or deep. They can also be T-shaped—knowing a lot about a little and a lit ...

Summary

  • Share Professionals supposedly come in two shapes: either short and fat, or tall and skinny, meaning their skill set is either broad or deep.
  • As Bruce Lee supposedly said (though I can’t find the origin of the quote), “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Tech workers, probably more than anyone but musicians and athletes, are pushed to sacrifice breadth for depth.

 

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  1. Machine_Learning (0.29)
  2. Backend (0.11)
  3. UX (0.11)

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