TL;DR: You got promoted or you wanted to get promoted. You decide you want to make a bigger project to show ambition, advance your career and whatnot. You embark on making some grand project, disappearing from view. This often leads to you getting stuck with something, falling behind and various negative effects like getting a PIP or becoming depressed.

His prescription to avoid this is to keep checking in and show some progress on something every day so you don't lose touch.

(My analysis: I don't think this is particularly a senior engineer problem, to me it just reads like ADHD-coded problems with time and interests)

I concluded long ago that anyone who writes without capitalizing the first letter of their sentences is not worth paying attention to, due to some combination of hubris, delusion, etc...

Combined with the inner monologue stream of consciousness style, and it is certain that this article is devoid of insight

Yeah should have put it through an LLM to clean it up.