How do people get to "staff" without reading industry core reading?

Software Estimation: Demystifying the black art by Steve McConnell should be 1st year reading in any software development major in college...

We've largely "solved" this problem in the industry we just have a problem of getting people to read and read the right things

What do you mean “how”? Levels aren’t like building a bridge, it’s just arbitrary stuff. Even money is arbitrary, we’ve got Bitcoin billionaires after all.

As for reading… https://thecodelesscode.com/case/215?topic=documentation