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Mitchell is the only person I can think of who went through the cycle of tinkerer/IC -> founder -> CXO and then back to IC in his own company. Also, his writing
by cgopalan 3y ago
Mitchell is the only person I can think of who went through the cycle of tinkerer/IC -> founder -> CXO and then back to IC in his own company. Also, his writings on Zig has been tremendously helpful for someone like me who is curious about it. Huge respect from a fellow IC!
- kfrane 3y agoThe only other person I remember doing that is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer) Btw. he published a great read on how they started Autodesk https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/
- HatchedLake721 3y agoIC?
- hazzamanic 3y agoIndividual contributor
- bitwrangler 3y agoIndependent Consultant (my guess)
- andrelaszlo 3y agoIntegrated Circuit. Insatiable Craving. Irrevocable Crust. Indifferent Creator. Ignatios of Constantinople. Instigating Crime. Irritating C**. Individual Contributor. Your guess is as good as mine!
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoIt’s standard big corp parlance for a role that has no direct reports. Obvious terminology for anyone who has worked in an org with a moderate size HR or higher, but anyone else has probably never heard of it. I knew immediately that it meant Individual Contributor but I can easily see someone not knowing it if have never worked in BigCorp
- earthling8118 3y agoHaving worked in a few extremely large organizations myself, I've never had this term used. Only on this site.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoGo on Blind and you'll see it used all the time, along with a flurry of other incomprehensible acronyms that make Silicon Valley the TV show seem more real than ever. Blind is probably the strongest representation of BigCo population on the internet in terms of percentage of users. You'll see it in plenty of Reddit discussions as well. It just so happens that a good hunk of this site happen to work in the kind of environment that the acronym is used frequently so perhaps it's not entirely unreasonable to expect it to be well known. I swear though, if you haven't been on Blind and you just visit it's like decoding another language with all the acronyms.
- cgopalan 3y agoSorry, thought it was a fairly familiar acronym. IC = individual contributor.
- hadlock 3y agoIt's extremely familiar. No need to apologize.
- epolanski 3y agoWhere can I find these writings?
- cgopalan 3y agoOn his website: https://mitchellh.com/zig https://mitchellh.com/zig
- madarcho 3y agoAt Unity, Joachim Ante always stayed very close to the underlying engine and its tech, rather than the broader market strategies and moves. Of course, every situation is unique and difficult to compare 1:1.