Comments on: The Quest for Escape Velocity in my Career.. http://www.amitsrivastava.net/2008-06-04-the-quest-for-escape-velocity-in-my-career/ Trying to make sense! Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:30:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amit http://www.amitsrivastava.net/2008-06-04-the-quest-for-escape-velocity-in-my-career/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Amit Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:36:24 +0000 http://www.amitsrivastava.net/?p=35#comment-163 @Deepesh: Well, yes. Now I do understand your point. And you've made a very important point 'programmers' and 'technologists'. Anyways I am neither of these I guess. That makes me wonder, what am I? :-) @Deepesh: Well, yes. Now I do understand your point. And you’ve made a very important point ‘programmers’ and ‘technologists’. Anyways I am neither of these I guess. That makes me wonder, what am I? :-)

]]> By: Deepesh http://www.amitsrivastava.net/2008-06-04-the-quest-for-escape-velocity-in-my-career/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Deepesh Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:49:23 +0000 http://www.amitsrivastava.net/?p=35#comment-161 Nice, I hope now you understand me better why I used to say I don't like coding ;-). One distinction I would like to make is between programmers and technologists, they can be completely different things and you can find technologists who are not interested so much in programming but want to do everything around it (e.g Steve Jobs, it would be naive to say he doesn't know technology because he stopped doing hands on technology in his teens - while he was doing it he was pretty good at it). Being good at providing technical solutions doesn't mean you need to get to the level where you are manipulating the bits, but an understanding is good enough. Summary is - don't worry about your development blues, get over it soon and get back to what you like (is it providing technical solutions or o..? ;-) Nice, I hope now you understand me better why I used to say I don’t like coding ;-) .

One distinction I would like to make is between programmers and technologists, they can be completely different things and you can find technologists who are not interested so much in programming but want to do everything around it (e.g Steve Jobs, it would be naive to say he doesn’t know technology because he stopped doing hands on technology in his teens – while he was doing it he was pretty good at it).

Being good at providing technical solutions doesn’t mean you need to get to the level where you are manipulating the bits, but an understanding is good enough.

Summary is – don’t worry about your development blues, get over it soon and get back to what you like (is it providing technical solutions or o..? ;-)

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