In a few of the tech-oriented slacks I’m a member of there’s been a lot of back-and-forth about what might happen to tech wages in a post-COVID (and during-COVID) world where lots of tech jobs (prominently including more and more major players like Twitter and Facebook) are moving to fully remote. Before getting into this topic, I want to acknowledge what a privilege it is to...
I’ve been reading James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State and as Scott chronicles the myriad ways that governments totally screw things up for their constituents through (often) well-meaning schemes of modernization and improvement, I’ve been thinking a lot about how this concept applies to the work I do in software engineering and product management. (Note: if you want to read a...
Last night on a boozy zoom call with some friends I did a very poor job of trying to explain how I think about the difference between price and value (and why that difference is important). I’m going to try to use this space to clarify my thoughts on the subject in a way which will hopefully be informative to y’all as well. I believe that the term “value” can apply to a...