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by wryoak
186 days ago
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Kind of. I’m transitioning to something a little more biochemistry-oriented but I expect to be employing a lot of my tech skills But yeah I hated being an SWE. 90% of my career’s projects consisted of reinventing the spreadsheet and 90% of my time was spent listening to people bikeshedding about the color of buttons. The direction of the industry is less relevant to my choices I’m sure my new course will feature similar motifs of redundancy and soul-sucking pedantry, but I’ll give it a decade like I did software and move on to career #4 if I tire |
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This, but for mobile apps.
"Uber for aircraft", "Cross LinkedIn with AirBnB with Google Maps", "Read the news", "Foursquare but for my hobby"… it was exciting when I was young and fresh and didn't know what was out there; now I know that I just didn't realise how many others were doing the same things.
Competition I didn't spot meant success was all about discovery rather than actual innovation, "build it and they will come" is just not true. Discovery means paying an ad-tax to the gatekeepers of eyeballs. But that's a bidding war, an all-pay auction for your version of the widely-instantiated "innovation" to win a temporary monopoly before the feature becomes table stakes in a bigger product, like IE was to Netscape, and Sherlock was to whoever that was, and Skype to all chat apps.