What is art? [Was Re: Hello 2015]

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Michael Watson wrote:

> closing paragraph:
> "Technical skills are less important than creative thinking," lectures
> Netochka in an e-mail. "The epoch of the generalist has arrived -- again.
> Any fool can program and most do. Software engineers are emotionally inept.
> In today's unstable + dynamic environment they do not stand a chance."

An odd thing to say, considering all the job postings are for 5 years
experience in one, sometimes two things, usually for technologies that have
been around for only 2-3 years. For example Apple's policy is to not hire
anyone with less then 12 years OSX experience - meaning you must have been a
professional NeXTStep developer since 1990, and they can find them too.

As a generalist I can say noone wants a generalist anymore, it's the age of
the extreeme specialist, just like it was before the boom. You bring in a
specialist to solve your problems and send them on their way, saves you 10k
or so just in hiring costs due to government overhead.

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
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