Business

The Career Ceiling in IT: Why I Stopped Chasing Management and Started Building My Own Product

A senior developer examines why traditional career paths beyond Senior — team lead, staff engineer, mentoring, and media presence — often turn into dead ends, and argues that building your own product is the only path with truly unlimited growth potential.

Business

What I Specifically Hate About Certain Marketers — Or: How a Programmer Went Grocery Shopping

A board game company founder catalogs the deceptive marketing tactics he encountered in a single grocery run — undersized "liter" packages, 25-year warranties printed on thermal paper that fades in two years, "cholesterol-free" vegetable oil, and margarine masquerading as butter — and asks why honest business practices are still the exception rather than the rule.