Andrei Kaleshka's wroclove.rb 2022 lightning talk. Andrew works at an outsourced company as a main developer / tech lead depending on project. Main developers and tech leads often end up mentoring juniors on junior projects — not everybody likes this, but Andrew does. His motivations: mentoring forces him to study (non-trivial questions push both technical and soft skills beyond what books, courses and conferences provide); it develops engineers at his company and makes the company better (ask to be paid for it if you need more money); it grows the Ruby community and counters claims that 'Ruby is dying' by producing more engineers; and for the social aspect, outside work he mentors refugees from Ukraine and political immigrants from Belarus. Core message: find your own motivation in volunteering — it can be one of his points, or something else entirely. Q&A discusses why people keep asking whether Ruby is dying, noting companies moving from Ruby to JRuby or Rust, and a counter-argument that Ruby developer counts are actually increasing, just more slowly than Python.