Why your discount rate changes in late career and how that affects compensation strategy
As you progress in your career, the time value of money shifts—long vesting schedules and deferred equity that make sense at 30 become economically irrational at 60. Kent Beck applies financial first principles to explain why late-career engineers should negotiate differently, and why tech compensation structures systematically disadvantage older developers.
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