

Producer, developer, designer, podcast addict, privacy advocate, and generalist. I built great products at @Elastic and @Opbeat.
Unfortunately at many places, you’re roadblocked in advancing your career unless you become a manager. This sadly incentivizes the wrong outcomes, in which people who don’t love dealing with people become bad managers, and both they and their team suffers. In more technical roles, we are fortunate that many companies support separate but equal career tra…