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In which I explain why comparing yourself to the more-senior engineers around you is a mistake: they have a structural advantage of earlier access to information that can be hard to distinguish from prescience.

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Senior engineers are living in the future

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I magine for a moment that, by some quirk of the universe, you are sharing your workspace with a time traveller. Specifically, yourself from 1 year in the future. How will you react to your new co-worker? 1 [ 1 If you find this exercise difficult, try instead imagining how your past self of a year ago would react to…