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Oh there are so many of us with those FAX personal moats. You work on something, a framework, a data interchange thingy that only you know, and over time others
by kshacker 6y ago
Oh there are so many of us with those FAX personal moats. You work on something, a framework, a data interchange thingy that only you know, and over time others keep moving but you become the one indispensable guy ... until one day you are not.
- exmadscientist 6y agoIt's interesting that this seems to be much worse in software than in hardware. This is one reason (among many, including personal reasons) why I've focused my career on hardware rather than software. JavaScript might (or might not) reign for a hundred years, but transistors are forever.
- toast0 6y agoAlso, things like you train people up on your job, but there's not really enough work for two FAX people, so they go off and do something else (and, usually, forget all the FAX nonsense). And, your moat is fixing all the weird things, actually. And there's a lot of weird things, but the same one doesn't keep break, so how do you train someone to just fix whatever is broken that is nobody's job? You have to hire someone with that mindset, and just give them some tickets and a little bit of help here and there.