Why geeks become discontent
May 30th, 2006Matt posted a great response to an article on managing geeks that I sent him before it hit Digg a few days ago. His responses were concise and well thought out with #10 being my favorite:
10: Forget that geeks are creative workers
… I look at programming as engineering. My Dad was/is an Industrial Engineer. When you need to build something that’s never been done before, who do you call? Someone like him. It’s the same thing with us in web programming. Sure, we may not be re-inventing the wheel every day, but our application of the tools we have is rarely the same any two times, and sometimes we’re completely figuring it out on our own. It is a creative process. People forget this FAR too often.