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Every profession has a tendency to overstate it's own importance. In the eyes of programmers , we are misunderstood , under appreciated and people don't fully g

Every profession has a tendency to overstate it's own importance. In the eyes of programmers , we are misunderstood , under appreciated and people don't fully grasp our worth. Management thinks that they're the real movers and shakers , having to take all the risk , make all the tough decisions , while having to deliver results while being saddled with sometimes recalcitrant and inefficient teams. Mathematicians feel that they are the ones at the vanguard of progress and are angered by the fact that people have the temerity to say that they don't "get" math or have any use for it in real life. Though Delmania's comment skirts dangerously close to what pg might call a "middlebrow dismissal" , he makes a very important point. Our increasingly unequal economy and limited opportunities are forcing us to increasingly push ourselves harder and into a fierce cycle of competition that is destroying us. Some lessons in Humility , Resilience and Self acceptance would do us a world of good.

crimsonalucard 11y ago
>Management thinks that they're the real movers and shakers , having to take all the risk , make all the tough decisions , while having to deliver results while being saddled with sometimes recalcitrant and inefficient teams. It is by far easier to imagine something than it is to make that imagination real. It is by far easier to tell someone what to do then it is to do it. Management is by far easier than engineering. Management, however, is still a dramatically different skill than engineering, and it is a skill that is important.
- marcosdumay 11y ago
  > It is by far easier to tell someone what to do then it is to do it. Only if you don't care whether it gets done, and if it gets done well. Otherwise, it's far easier to just do it, and not rely on the known unreliable "other people". Problem is that a big share of management in fact don't care about those things, and only manage the political game. But don't let that mislead you, actual management is hard, quite on par with engineering.

crimsonalucard 11y ago

>Management thinks that they're the real movers and shakers , having to take all the risk , make all the tough decisions , while having to deliver results while being saddled with sometimes recalcitrant and inefficient teams. It is by far easier to imagine something than it is to make that imagination real. It is by far easier to tell someone what to do then it is to do it. Management is by far easier than engineering. Management, however, is still a dramatically different skill than engineering, and it is a skill that is important.

marcosdumay 11y ago
> It is by far easier to tell someone what to do then it is to do it. Only if you don't care whether it gets done, and if it gets done well. Otherwise, it's far easier to just do it, and not rely on the known unreliable "other people". Problem is that a big share of management in fact don't care about those things, and only manage the political game. But don't let that mislead you, actual management is hard, quite on par with engineering.