- Stop Avoiding Politics | Terrible Software (October 2025) - “You can refuse to participate, but that doesn’t make [politics] go away. It just means decisions get made without you.” Good politics is building relationships, understanding people’s needs and using your influence to find solutions that work for everyone
- How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer | sean goedecke (October 2025) - “Having the right idea handy at the right time is your responsibility.” One way to increase your political capital is to keep a backlog of potential project ideas so that you can offer those ideas when senior leadership expresses concerns about a particular problem
- Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did | The Pragmatic Engineer - “If you take one lesson from this, it’s that you can always say no.” Three stories where engineers were asked to do something dodgy, what they did, and the consequences of their actions
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