Trapped in the Technologist Factory

If you are a technologist/generalist, aiming for small companies is a good strategy. If you're not in SV even better, you may end up in a real grass roots business and a really interesting problem domain that is ostensibly Not Software. I personally, cannot stand the software for software industry. You, me, we have…

> We were downstream of the business model; our job was simply to wait and prepare for its eventual success. Hard thing to learn and to stomach. The you are essentially a few nodes downstream from the decision makers who commissioned the software in the first place. They have some long-term view even if you can…

This post seems to take the stance that we need to cultivate failure so that we can learn. We don’t need to cultivate failure, there’s plenty of failure to be had. I mean people need to be allowed to make their own mistakes but that’s not the same thing.