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That's the difference between a job and and a hobby. He likes biking but to be efficiently deliver pizzas from shop to homes, he needs to drive a car. He could

That's the difference between a job and and a hobby. He likes biking but to be efficiently deliver pizzas from shop to homes, he needs to drive a car. He could still ride a bike in his spare time, but don't expect to get paid the same way as driving a delivery car. Note that even if he's a super fit guy, and is as efficient as another guy with a car, there are always other rules that make it complicated: insurance, customer expectation, etc. Now we can always dream about a world where we can just work on our hobbies, but the reality is we are not there yet.

wpietri 12y ago
That's very well put. Having been in the industry for what feels like a long time, I definitely struggle with that. Having a deep understanding of systems was useful and valuable back in the day. It still can be useful today, but an awful lot of software gets made through relatively unsophisticated people gluing together a bunch of stuff they don't understand very well. I suspect a much greater proportion of cyclists really understands their bikes than car drivers understands their cars. Which would be problematic if those people were, say, race car drivers. But that's not the case.