Career Advice
If anyone had asked me a year ago, about how to make a career in technology, I would have been able to talk to them for hours. The number of books, well-regarded articles and other such resources that I would have been able to throw at an acolyte would be enough to keep them busy for a lifetime.
What I would have said to such a person still applies, of course, if they are interested in Good Old-Fashioned Classical Programming, but increasingly it seems this is not the kind of programming that the industry is built on. Now whether this is a good thing, or a bad thing is for the future to decide, but right now it's happening, and it cannot be ignored or wished away.
What should one do then? Unfortunately, I don't have a satisfactory answer. I'm scrambling to figure it out for myself. Being excellent at something relevant and/or necessary is the best possible bet one can make.