Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
This is bad advice. If you are hitting 40's, please do yourself a favor and go into management.Yes coding is fun but,1. Not being able to change jobs because you can't invert a binary tree in 20 secs in leetcode hazing, is not fun.2. Being managed by someone a decade younger than you with no family or responsibilities, is not fun.3. Spending your weekends learning the latest JS framework because you don't want to be someone "who doesn't keep up", is not fun.4. Being paid less than the lowest grade manager, is not fun .5. And be honest with yourself, do you really need 20 yrs of coding experience to write CRUD apps? What exactly are you bringing to the table.There is no such thing as "IC track" for almost every one of us, please shake yourself out of your delusion.