The novel is set in the twenty-second century, a time when flooding and political upheaval have destabilized most of the globe. And most importantly, over time, I learned how to empathize with members of those other disciplines, to try to see problems their way as well as my own.Įffective team software engineering, I discovered, is also effective team leadership, and with leadership comes power, and with power comes a host of new hazards to be navigated.īlackfish City is a novel about power, its application, and about the empathy required to use it well. I learned how to ask for help in the right ways when I ran into a problem that couldn’t be solved with code, a problem that needed a skillset from somewhere else in the office. I resolved my plight by doing what all software engineers do-I broke down the problems facing me into bite-sized, manageable chunks and dealt with them one at a time.
It didn’t help that I was surrounded by people who had been engineering software for years, even decades, longer than I had. As a junior professional software engineer, I experienced acute imposter syndrome. One of the many hats I wear is that of a professional software engineer.
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