I enjoyed Rieseberg's advice is for junior engineers, and think that it applies to all kinds of careers. I tell my students all the time to be builders wherever they go, and this illustrates that idea really well.
It also accounts for the problem of lacking "social capital, status, or power.” His five steps—pick a goal your organization actually has, pick a radical idea, build it over a weekend, keep it to one good idea, lean into your fresh perspective—really rang true for me.
I’m seeing engineers who are comparatively new fly past people who are probably better coders and have been around much longer. Hunger beats tenure.
Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers | Felix Rieseberg