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Okay sadly Hank Green deleted the original because internet people are crap 😞 But the gist was “when I talk to software people about how it’s dramatically changing everything for them, and what skills will be needed in the future, they say physical labour and something like a liberal arts degree”

@stevekrouse.com's line "programming is fundamentally theory building" has been my recent scream-it-from-the-rooftop refrain. i think a lot of exhaustion from software engineers right now is because the rate that we have to think (and read) has picked up a *lot* in the last couple of years.

'Now I get to build a whole software ecosystem around a tiny problem, and, actually, what *do* I want to do tomorrow?' is so much better than 'Sorry, I can't play right now, I'm debugging Fourier transforms'

Doesn’t seem to me like that is an accurate representation of the two realities we are choosing between

Macro, sure, but it's literally what I'm doing this week as opposed to what I was doing last year.