Film sets can seem enigmatic, the pacing, the language, the decorum. Film has over a hundred years of cultural development that manifests on set as set etiquett

Film sets can seem enigmatic, the pacing, the language, the decorum. Film has over a hundred years of cultural development that manifests on set as set etiquette. Combined with mature unions that actively and heavily defend their trades. It can seem ridiculous and wasteful to the uninitiated… and indy productions split off constantly to try and reinvent the wheel only for individuals later in their career to converge back to established industry practices. In software there seems to be an overwhelming and toxic opinion that tech can solve all problems and that disruption at all cost is good. While not to dismiss these opinions wholeheartedly the wake of their destruction is not to be ignored. In film the human element is not only never ignored, it is the soul reason for being. As a creative endeavor whose output ideally is art, the working relationships, delegation of duties and decision making power is well established and enforced in the interest of efficient collaboration. Software on the other hand seems to be fully staffed with individuals who rarely get past tier four on the Maslow hierarchy, are entirely individualistic, highly competitive to a fault and in a never ending combative relationship with management that seems to be highly antithetical to the act of creation. For lack of deeper insights I chock it up to different financial incentives in the respective industries writ large. One is making cultural artistic or purely entertainment artifacts for humans, the other arguably creating solutions maybe for humans maybe not with the only goal of always more money no matter what.