working in tech is only becoming more difficult as the rapidly increasing gap between vision and execution dilutes the former and commodifies the latter
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It feels like everything is recursing into its own ever more specialized isolated zone. There's so little broader vision or unifying flags for hope. Tech lacks visible values and purpose, becomes ever more just a tool for industrial use, Not the Engelbart-ian possibility of Augmenting Intellect.
dec 13, 2024, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Maxim, maybe. But I'd want the world to get better at interrogating the concept of "vision". Juul had a vision. Algorithmic social media is a vision (and looked at only in terms of user wants, seems benign).
dec 5, 2024, 1:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Something something world-changing, then *waves hand* AI sprinkles, and there we have it. Shall I send you our term sheet?
dec 4, 2024, 6:16 pm • 2 0 • view
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jan 28, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 0 • view
this isn’t a skills gap. or an ideology gap. it’s a narrative gap. a deliberate disconnection of shared realities
dec 4, 2024, 6:11 pm • 26 2 • view
all the while tearing apart those who have the capability – and motivation – to do both
jan 21, 2025, 5:28 pm • 13 1 • view
ain't it the truth
jan 21, 2025, 5:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I disagree with the deliberate part but perhaps I haven’t been put through the wringer enough
dec 4, 2024, 7:16 pm • 2 0 • view
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dec 4, 2024, 7:18 pm • 3 0 • view
hm by “vision” I was thinking “product vision,” but I agree with you in terms of “company vision”
dec 4, 2024, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
these days it’s all the same to me
dec 4, 2024, 8:20 pm • 1 0 • view
which — they should be tbh
dec 4, 2024, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately, the ideology and narrative gap is also linked to many external factors in the world.
dec 4, 2024, 6:20 pm • 4 0 • view
May I offer a perspective? Realities aren’t shared. They are asynchronous… disconnected by various factors, knit when desired or destined. The gap you rightly call out is that of such a border being crossed or closed inequitably… we expected to grow differently than reality has been presented
dec 4, 2024, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Posts will continue until morale improves
dec 5, 2024, 7:17 am • 4 0 • view
Best software development jobs I've ever had were all at companies that didn't do software.
dec 5, 2024, 1:44 am • 3 0 • view
Wow really? It’s been the exact opposite experience for me 😅 anytime the software department has been looked at as a cost center … it’s tended to lead to poor management outcomes: unrealistic deadlines, understaffing, low pay, etc
dec 5, 2024, 12:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, they weren't that kind of position, either. These were all projects where the companies were investing in R&D, trying to expand their traditional, not-software offering.
dec 5, 2024, 1:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Most companies outsource that sort of thing. I've been on the receiving side of that, too, and that can also be a nightmare. No idea what they want because it's all new, but constantly needling on cost.
dec 5, 2024, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
But to instead try to run your own R&D op, that takes a very specific type of leadership, and it seems to fit my personality much better.
dec 5, 2024, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
oh man, yeah ... R&D definitely takes a specific kind of leadership/vision to execute successfully! Even at a large company, it's not often you get a chance to do that kind of work (unless you're specifically in like, MS Research or something 😅)
dec 5, 2024, 2:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Feel free to hire me at Microsoft and prove me wrong, though :P
dec 5, 2024, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view