The title is a little off. From the article: "The work is sometimes frustrating . . . And it frequently requires complex thinking." Sound familiar? What is r

The title is a little off. From the article: "The work is sometimes frustrating . . . And it frequently requires complex thinking." Sound familiar? What is really being discussed is the line where work becomes about craftsmanship. As software hackers, this is the space where I'll bet most of us prefer to operate. Not mindlessly churning out code to some spec, but rather building that piece of code that elegantly solves the problem presented to us by the user. That preference is one of the reasons I think many hackers feel a lack of satisfaction from standard IT cubicle jobs. I'm not saying you can't find that challenge and reward (dare I say the flow of code) working as a corporate IT person, but surely corporate IT doesn't do much to encourage that experience. I suspect that's why (at least in this forum), so many of us are interested in startups or extracting a living from software away from the cubicle (or, maybe I should say, from a cubicle not owned by us).