Be the leader people will want to follow

Always be on the path of being the leader people want to follow.

You should have people who advocate for you to others when you are not looking, people who seek to join your team when you start something new.

For engineering types, every problem you face from a certain point in your leadership career will involve less technical and more human elements, that’s just the fact of the sin eating executives have to face.

The technical aspects will inspire you personally, but as we age, we end up generally getting paid because of our abilities with the humans, because they’re the most frustrating and difficult.

This drift of being rewarded for your wizardry towards human/execution and away from technical/execution increases, as the latter will be possible by new talent coming in, but not the former.

Be known for being a wizard with the humans, and it will stop mattering which “topic” those humans belong to — then you will have the choice of which topic you personally like.