Don't Call Yourself A Programmer and Other Career Advice

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• 2020-10-24
  
  • Even when you do have your boss or customers convinced, they still need some kind of report showing metrics for money saved, time saved, value added, etc. Your bosses have bosses, your customers have bosses, and at the end of the line somewhere is a person whose only interest is increasing revenue and reducing cost (thanks [[Patio11]] [[Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice]]).
    • Accept you're going to have to create this material. Accept it is just as much work as any of the technical things you do (probably more important)
• 2020-10-25
  
  • Businesses don't care about cool software, they care about increasing revenue and reducing costs [[2020-10-24]] [[Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice]]
• 2020-10-25
  
  • Started reading [[Getting To Yes]] after reading [[Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice]]
    • A note I liked: "Give them a stake in the outcome by making sure they participate in the process. If they are not involved in the process, they are unlikely to approve the product" pg. 29
      • Getting someone to do what you want is easiest when they want the same thing.
      • very applicable to the [[opensource]] space and collaboration in general. Everyone wants their own stake, just like you
• 2020-10-31
  

  For example, this idea partially explains the incentives for big companies to contribute to [[opensource]] projects. As much as they would like us to think they're doing it because it's a good thing, they are reducing cost or increasing revenue [[Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice]]. Also, open source has many more benefits than just commoditization of software, like better code, easier recruiting, more contributors (The Cathedral and Bazaar has a the thorough breakdown), but it is important to remember companies are acting in their own economic best interest, even when they are contributing to open source, which just so happens to be a cool thing to do as well.

• getting-to-yes
  

  This was a book recommended by [[patio11]] in [[Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice]]

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