The most difficult thing in tech is sticking to your core competencies

We are funny beings. I mean us as software engineers, because we love to build stuff. Give us any problem and we will probably get stuck for a few hours and wish we were never born a few times, but we will try to get through it, and we will come up with a solution. More often than not, we will build something ourselves, however, and we will be hellish proud of our accomplishments.

Interestingly, most companies love exactly this. We solve their problems for them, and we even discover a few more along the way and use our precious time to solve them, too. What more could you ask for?

Well, did you know that this is one of the biggest problems in tech? We simply don’t know when to stop. We get so lost in what we love to do that we stop asking ourselves whether we spend our time wisely at all. Only a few companies and managers have realized this, as well. And if they have, they will try to stop us.

If you are a little lost now and ask yourself what I am talking about, wait a second. Let me explain.

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