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Maybe a lot of them just want to live out some sort of Steve Jobs fantasy

• gaius 9y ago
  Spolsky was a PM at MS, I don't think Jobs ever was.
  • jrs95 9y ago
    I didn't mean it that literally. Just in general, I can imagine a bunch of people buying into some sort of faux-enlightenment aesthetic and parading around as product gurus.
    • gaius 9y ago
      I've been in the industry 20+ years and I still have no idea what a product manager actually does. As far as I can tell everyone completely ignores them. Maybe their job is just to be a warm body filling a chair in pointless meetings, so programmers can do real work? Seems perfect for an MBA when the weather's too bad to play golf.
• rtpg 9y ago
  Or maybe they want to participate in the tech industry? Programmers don't have a monopoly on being interested in technology, nor do they have a monopoly on positive contributions in it either.