> Because motivated, high performing people need to have control over their own destiny.
This opinion seems to be peculiar to software and I think it has something to do with the fact that software is one of the few verticals where you can (attempt to) intellectualize everything.
Having control over your own destiny in any other skilled labor job seems to be 98% about finding a brand and model of tool that works the way you do, and 2% building your own tools or jigs for that specialty task nobody thought to build a tool for.
In software it's anywhere from 90:10 to 10:90 depending on how much emotional baggage your coworkers are carrying around.
This opinion seems to be peculiar to software and I think it has something to do with the fact that software is one of the few verticals where you can (attempt to) intellectualize everything.
Having control over your own destiny in any other skilled labor job seems to be 98% about finding a brand and model of tool that works the way you do, and 2% building your own tools or jigs for that specialty task nobody thought to build a tool for.
In software it's anywhere from 90:10 to 10:90 depending on how much emotional baggage your coworkers are carrying around.