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How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner - DaedTech

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In this post, I describe the phenomenon of the so-called expert beginner -- someone with mediocre skill who thinks he's an expert.

Beyond the Dead Sea: When Good Software Groups Go Bad I recently posted what turned out to be a pretty popular post called “How to Keep Your Best Programmers,” in which I described what most skilled programmers tend to want in a job and why they leave if they don’t get it. Today, I’d like to make a post that works toward a focus on the software group at an organization rather than on the individual journeys of developers as they move within or among organizations. This post became long enough as I was writing it that I felt I had to break it in at least two pieces. This

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