Find your unfair coding advantage
<p>You don’t need to be great at every developer skill. In fact, you can build a great career with mostly mediocre skills.</p>
<p>It also doesn’t matter what other people tell you to do. You don’t need to copy the advice of some guru or the practices of someone you most look up to.</p>
<p>There’s a meta lesson to be learned here: Those people got to great skills, careers, relationships, places in life, etc by leaning into their unfair advantages.</p>
<p>You should too.</p>
<h1>What’s an unfair advantage?</h1>
<p>The word “unfair” is kind of misleading in this term. Maybe I should’ve called them unique advantages.</p>
<p>But they’re “unfair” in the sense that everyone else will have a hard time competing with you on the skills & abilities where you’re the strongest.</p>
<p>For some developers, their unfair advantage is a deep understanding of code or a highly algorithmic mind.</p>
<p>Contrary to popular belief, I’d say those developers are in the minority.</p>
<p>Others of us —<a href="https://blog.developerpurpose.com/one-realization-that-changed-my-software-career-im-not-that-good-at-coding-aee8c4edc13d" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> myself included </a>— have unfair advantages in other parts of our personalities, skills, or past experience. Those other skills, outside of raw coding ability, are also valuable. Sometimes, more valuable than coding skill!</p>
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