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by kyo3 3128 days ago
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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I quit my “traditional engineering“ job after reading this book.
Why?
One of the central themes of the book is human-technology interaction and that technology for its own sake is ultimately worthless. In my "traditional engineering" job so much effort was spent debating the minutiae of our stack and never once talked about how the customer was made better by our efforts.

So I left.

Shit, me too. I started a book club at my employer and gave out like a dozen copies.