Maniacal Focus

... the missing skill

Every so often, as the fancy takes me, I like to stray from ole’ bread and butter of technical content in data, to other more general topics that indeed are important, but more esoteric.

Today is one of those days.

I’m in that sad part of my career in the Data World where I’ve been doing the same thing way too long, and eventually, you end up in the spot where you spend mostof your days …

• project planning

• putting out fires

• helping and upskilling others

• etc, etc, for the good of humanity

I’ve spent a decent amount of time these last many years observing what makes a Senior+ Engineer that very thing. I see the “mistakes,” if we can call them that, of those eternally optimistic and Leetcode-hungry mid-level Engineers, ever eager to pull us down from our high towers.