“But I am very biased, in that I love what I do in tech at the micro level but am ambivalent as to what the industry itself has morphed into [...] I still consider that period to be some of the most exciting of my career, if only for the sheer seat-of-pants ride it was.”
Oof! It’s still important to be aware of the cost of that ambivalence. Maintaining an OS for desktop users? Probably pretty safe. Maintaining servers for Experian? Or Uber’s car right before they killed Elaine Herzberg? Yeah ambivalence (and that ride) is a privilege.
Oof! It’s still important to be aware of the cost of that ambivalence. Maintaining an OS for desktop users? Probably pretty safe. Maintaining servers for Experian? Or Uber’s car right before they killed Elaine Herzberg? Yeah ambivalence (and that ride) is a privilege.