I Appreciate You

Technology-related work, like all work, is primarily a social endeavor. It’s surprising that so little effort goes into preparing aspiring technologists about this side of the business, especially given our propensity to be singularly bad at it. Hence this article.

Along related lines, I found the suggestions in What Makes a Great IT Consultant completely applicable to a broader set of technology roles, and would highly recommend it.

I’ve also finally started digging into The Architecture of Open Source Applications; it’s been hit and miss, but more of the former, so definitely worth the time investment. A statement that jumped out at me today (from the chapter on Eclipse) was that an API is a social contract just as much as it is a technical one. I like that way of looking at it; seems a natural corollary of Conway’s Law.

In tangentially-related news, season 2 of Ted Lasso comes out today. You should watch it.