After my therapy session yesterday I'm thinking a lot about success. I asked if I should just let go of the concepts of success and failure, and my therapist said there's much more power in reclaiming and redefining them, which tracks for me.

Why are so many companies in our industry fixated on setting and protecting a “high technical bar” when this makes their teams worse by all measures of output, product quality, team diversity, and turnover?

The question of what qualifies as a “Senior Developer” is so malleable that our industry squishes it into whatever shape fits their current needs, confusing and frustrating developers and leaving open a huge vector for bias.

Here’s a rough outline of what we are using to define the role of “Senior” going forward:

People who can introspect recognize the fact that their own biases, distortions, and assumptions sit in between actions and consequences, and they have a dramatic influence over our interpretation of reality.