I’m turning forty in a few weeks, and there’s a listicle archetype along the lines of“Things I’ve learned in the first half of my career as I turn forty and havenow worked roughly twenty years in the technology industry.”How do you write that and make it good?Don’t ask me. I don’t know!

As I considered what I would write to summarize my career learnings so far,I kept thinking about updating my post Advancing the industryfrom a few years ago, where I described using that concept as a north ...