> and certainly within a single company no one has to work as deeply in their minds as the programmers do. I sort of agree, but... I do think there are orgs wh

> and certainly within a single company no one has to work as deeply in their minds as the programmers do. I sort of agree, but... I do think there are orgs where folks do deep thought work who aren't labelled 'programmers', but... they're probably doing the same 'type' of thinking, at some level, as folks doing coding. I'm certain 'developers' aren't the only folks who do deep thinking work, but we seem to be ... the ones treated the most like we're not, at various companies. In law firms I've been in, all the lawyers get doors, and those doors are closed when they're doing 'deep work' (planning, writing, talking to clients, etc). That's ... deep work, and they're getting billed out at hundreds of dollars per hour. 20+ years ago, I was doing dev work getting billed out at $180/hr, and was stuck in a cube next to project managers who were on the phone all the time. Wearing headphones was seen as "rude" by colleagues around me, but them talking on the phone for 5+ hours per day 6 feet from me was... totally AOK.