The Visibility Tax is for the senior engineer who keeps getting nudged toward management and is not sure that wanting something else is allowed. It names the tax firms charge people who do the work without performing it in the room where promotions get decided. And it makes the case for staying at the keyboard anyway, on purpose, with your eyes open about what it costs.
Fifteen years of code, from a small product firm to a global software company to the top of the technical track. Not a playbook for climbing. The case that the track goes further than people tell you.