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Giovanni Proietta
Giovanni Proietta

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The problem with (not only) software developers

1000 years ago these professions did not exist:

  • Lead PPC Buyer Marketing Manager
  • Mid Kotlin developer
  • Senior C#/.NET Engineer
  • UI/UX manager

1000 years ago you could:

  • milk your cows,
  • grow crops,
  • work at the temple,
  • write

But you would always, always be:

an entrepreneur.

It means that if you were a carpenter you needed to take care of your clients, of your marketing, of your trade, of your tools, of your salary.

Of everything.

Then the specialization of labor kicked in and we all became specialists (some more, some less).

It impacts everybody.

It has PROs and CONs.

But here is what I learned talking to 100+ between developers and designers.

It looks nice at first thinking that one needs to take care of his tasks only:

  • Completing the Jira request,
  • Trimming a few pixels from the margins,
  • Insert the given animation,
  • Talk with the Product Owner only.

But what it leads to is isolation.

And the privilege to be in a timeless silent capsule, well pampered, not bothered by the outside world, absorbed in a black screen, makes every actor in the process more of a clog than a real human being.

We are trying to change that with Polipo (https://www.polipo.io/)

Wish us luck!

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