Well, Joel first talks about 'great thinkers' and then about 'smart thinkers'. The latter kind seems to me a failed instance of the former kind. The architectur

Well, Joel first talks about 'great thinkers' and then about 'smart thinkers'. The latter kind seems to me a failed instance of the former kind. The architecture astronaut is a failed kind of thinker who is now inflicting his failure on all of us by actually never getting anything useful done while masquerading as a great thinker. There actually are great thinkers in history but they did not invent RPC protocols while at the same time thinking this would somehow be a technology revolution.