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I agree and that is why I tried to frame my sentence above "Learning and executing customer feedback skills is as important as coding". I am a firm believer th
by jjm 15y ago
I agree and that is why I tried to frame my sentence above "Learning and executing customer feedback skills is as important as coding".
I am a firm believer that It can be learned. In fact I think many VCs look for entrepreneurs that are willing and able to learn these important skills.
I look at it this way as well, it is much easier to teach a hacker customer skills than it is a business person how to code, and code well (like a good hacker).
- jpwagner 15y agoOn your last remark, I've come to realize this assumption is false. Two points: (1) In the same way that hackers have practiced thinking like hackers all their lives, gifted business people have been practicing what they do well since a very young age. (2) What makes it "hard" for business people to learn to code may not be that it's hard to learn, but that the ROI isn't great enough.
- jjm 15y agoWhy would the 'I' in ROI not be (in some respect) the effort required to teach hacker-ness?