Software suffers that same problem as fiction, with people who have pursued programming and nothing else since childhood. This is why there are so many common needs of people that software fails to meet. If we observe the open world and identify opportunities in it, some of the desires we encounter can be addressed with software. But the workforce is all people working backwards: First I decide that I want to write a computer program, and then I will figure out what it shall be. This path has two destinations: Solipsistic (text editors and games) and mercenary (big tech or defense contractor).
it was interesting to read this after getting sucked into some productivity youtuber's "how not looking at my phone and staring at a wall for twenty minutes a day doubled my productivity!" self-improvement bait. (yours is better, to be clear.) the combination is nudging me back to my current Big Read, _The Challenger Launch Decision_, and perhaps away from bluesky for a few days.
Software suffers that same problem as fiction, with people who have pursued programming and nothing else since childhood. This is why there are so many common needs of people that software fails to meet. If we observe the open world and identify opportunities in it, some of the desires we encounter can be addressed with software. But the workforce is all people working backwards: First I decide that I want to write a computer program, and then I will figure out what it shall be. This path has two destinations: Solipsistic (text editors and games) and mercenary (big tech or defense contractor).
it was interesting to read this after getting sucked into some productivity youtuber's "how not looking at my phone and staring at a wall for twenty minutes a day doubled my productivity!" self-improvement bait. (yours is better, to be clear.) the combination is nudging me back to my current Big Read, _The Challenger Launch Decision_, and perhaps away from bluesky for a few days.
Mmm, now that you mention it, I want to read this book, too. It sounds fascinating!