Three emails, one point: the work goes unseen, being the fixer traps you, and no one's coming to fix it for you.
A lot of you replied. I read every one.
Same threads kept showing up, one person's comfort deciding your growth. No real path, just burnout. All your energy going into fixing, none left to show what you actually did.
You're not wrong about any of it. But being right about the system doesn't move you inside it.
You know I spent 25 years as a CTO, on the side deciding who moved up and who got the "not yet." What I haven't told you is what I did with that.
I took what separates the ones who move up from the ones who stay stuck, and built it into something, a way to work directly with the engineers who are done being overlooked and ready to move.
It opens July 7.
I'm not explaining the whole thing today, expect more from me than usual over the next few days, including something going up on the channel. That's deliberate.
If the last few emails landed, you're who I built this for. Stay close.
- Karell aka The Serious CTO