Hot take on the ‘indispensable engineer’ trap and why the new career moat is clear thinking and delegation, not knowledge hoarding
The Indispensable Engineer Trap (And Why I Walked Right Into It) For most of my early career, I optimized for the wrong thing. I made myself the person who knew where all the bodies were buried. The one who understood the legacy pipeline no one else had touched in three years. The one you called…