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Something I've been wondering about this style of hiring and more generally promotion of a business — does it only work for technology companies that primarily
by Robin_Message 15y ago
Something I've been wondering about this style of hiring and more generally promotion of a business — does it only work for technology companies that primarily serve geeks and early adopters?
Or to put it another way, can you get good employees and exposure by writing about technology if you make factory management software? Or should you be writing about the management of factories?
- cainetighe 15y agoI would say that it's mostly based on the culture you cultivate for your brand and yourself. In Gabe's post he mentioned Initech, the company from the movie Office Space, because it represents the quintessentially shitty corporately inundated fortune 50 company. Consequently, when I think of FOSS programmers, their job is either to work on this FOSS project (hired by yahoo to work on freebsd), or they're unfulfilled by their current job and use FOSS as a way to be creative and enjoy their craft. Prolific people are driven by obsession (my opinion); so even if they use that to make ends meat, it's not the end of the line for their work.