Duly Noted

Most engineers are not tired because they write too much code. They are tired because they fight too much friction. We often treat productivity as the ability to do more things, doing them faster. In software engineering, this definition is wrong. True productivity is about solving hard problems effectively.

_{Quote Citation: Fran Soto, “I identified the 7 deadly sins of engineering productivity so you don’t have to”, JAN 18, 2026, https://strategizeyourcareer.com/p/the-7-deadly-sins-of-software-engineers-productivity}