Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

Work-Life Balance

As technology has eaten the world, many companies that have created that technology have also eaten their people. We’re all influenced by the practices and celebrated successes of the tech giants that we see publicized in our industry, and those celebrated successes are the “unicorns,” the 10x rebels—hustling hard, being disruptive, and vacuuming talent and competitors in a race to become the dominant force in the market.

We read books, we watch podcasts, we follow influential business people on Twitter, and slowly, with time, we move the norm toward the extreme with the amount that we are all expected to work. The technology industry is obsessed with growth. Valuations of companies are typically driven by their revenue and ...