on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate

By Nihar B. Shah

In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…

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What began as an anarchistic collaboration of equals has become a commercialized escape hatch for the wealthy.

the gospel for those out of distribution