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I try to remind myself how small this little corner of the technology world I live in is, and still lose perspective sometimes. If your career is, say, playing
by _jal 6y ago
I try to remind myself how small this little corner of the technology world I live in is, and still lose perspective sometimes.
If your career is, say, playing client-server ping-pong with JSON blobs, it can be really useful to look around at other industries and see what they're up to. The commonalities quickly give way to some interesting problems and perspectives.
- tpmx 6y agoI like this approach. I make it a point to try to understand other industries that I came across in daily life. So much information is out there - you just need to learn basic research techniques and be patient/curious. Learning to understand financial statements is also a big one. Why am I doing this? a) Curiosity. I want to understand how the world works. b) I'm looking for some niche industry market that can be improved, in some plausible way. By the way: There's so much weird market segmentation going on in most other industries than software.