The highest ability, fastest learners disproportionately leave the field over time. They have a multitude of other ways to profitably leverage their intellect and skills. Software development carries serious opportunity cost. Again, this is ironic because one would normally expect the best to stay and worst to leave, but that's not what we see in the data.
https://whoisnnamdi.com/never-enough-developers
https://whoisnnamdi.com/never-enough-developers
Who is Nnamdi?
Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers
Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers
The more difficult life experience I amass, the more I become persuaded that the key to all of life's highest callings is to make peace with and ultimately transcend the various early-childhood traumas that we're often not even aware are shaping our decisions and behaviors.
https://scientificamerican.com/article/how-parents-rsquo-trauma-leaves-biological-traces-in-children
https://scientificamerican.com/article/how-parents-rsquo-trauma-leaves-biological-traces-in-children
Scientific American
How Parents' Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children
Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways
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