The higher you are, the more your impact is from the degree to which you communicate and the less from the amount you yourself code: make communication your most leveraged skill:
Writing Clearly: Proposals, design docs, and postmortems all benefit from clear writing and help make decisions and align people. Great engineers write well.
Speaking Clearly: Stand-ups, meetings, and presentations are opportunities to make a mark. Condition yourself to make the complicated simpler.
1:1 Discussions: Leadership happens more often through informal one-on-ones—mentoring a newly hired engineer, aligning with a product manager, or escalating concerns up to leadership.
Example: In a SaaS firm, a seasoned engineer identified recurring performance issues. Instead of just running and fixing them, she wrote a clear, evidence-based paper detailing why a caching layer would resolve the root cause. That paper convinced leadership to make a budget for the project available—impact driven by communication, not just by code.
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