[bhntr3]

Maturity (or seniority) is a form of growth and it has stages. I would call this article Stage 2: Do the approved thing.

It's an important stage. But people who stay in this stage too long become intolerable technical architects who yammer away about best practices and high level company goals, produce technical documents no one reads and plan team building events no one wants to attend.

To me stage 3 involves thinking critically about tradeoffs. Applying best practices in relevant contexts and rejecting them in others is a good example.

I always end up linking this silly blog post. https://medium.com/@webseanhickey/the-evolution-of-a-softwar... It sums up the seniority growth cycle better than I can in words.

[ratww]

"Stage 2" is very comfortable. It can give you a lot of power without the effort of doing research and acquiring experience.