Amazing presentation, the real gold is buried somewhere in the middle: "To paraphrase Kent Beck, professional software development is about... Communication a

Amazing presentation, the real gold is buried somewhere in the middle: "To paraphrase Kent Beck, professional software development is about... Communication and collaboration between large numbers of people with different perspectives." This is why large organisations suffer, communication;) People say it a lot that the code isn't most of the value but the auxiliary stuff is, which is true - but the conclusion from that shouldn't be that the work itself isn't that important, it's just that you'll see way less of it in a large organisation. This is also why a well-aimed startup can easily blow the socks off companies with thousands of employees - the communication overhead is high, accountability is very diffused and everything is codified. In an ideal world, you'd spend 100% of your time with either the work or something adjacent (like research), but of course, that's completely unrealistic. But if you aren't doing work but something else, it's probably a good idea to ask yourself, does this matter? Does it help my goals?