As a (mostly) self-taught web dev with little formal college-level Computer Science education, it is easy to hold those who possess this specialized training in high regard. And as someone who relishes learning new and novel ways of solving common problems in the abstract, I value what I pick up along the way as I [...]
I don’t think it’s a stretch to acknowledge that there are plenty of problems that humankind faces that just will not be solved by the Internet. Which then begs the question: what problems, if any, are worth solving? The Internet is a network. And not simply a network of “things” but a network that serves [...]
Are we on track for a future where the skills of a developer will become all but ubiquitous? Will there still be a place for product managers and UX designers unless they are not merely conversant in the tools of a developer, but proficient? Will fluency with code be a bare essential? Or, put another [...]
(…though it can lead to extraordinary results.) The fact that you can get a group of professionals, like engineers, who stereotypically can have the tendency to be singularly, rationally focused, to start thinking in terms of personal experience, emotion, and storytelling as being of primary importance in creating human-centered products is amazing. But, it is [...]