But, apart from that, if you stay well-read and keep at it, your output doesn't necessarily have to be voluminous. While producing a lot of code is still important, what has interested me—and this is something that we talked about at Netscape when we talked about their track for principal engineer—is somebody who isn't management but still has enough leadership or influence to cause other programmers to write code like they would write without them having to do it, because you don't have enough hours in the day or fingers. Having that ability to spread your approach and whatever you've learned
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