Comments on: Personal branding – turning developers into entrepreneurs http://47hats.com/2007/11/personal-branding-%e2%80%93-turning-developers-into-entrepreneurs/ Bob Walsh Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rudolf Olah http://47hats.com/2007/11/personal-branding-%e2%80%93-turning-developers-into-entrepreneurs/comment-page-1/#comment-26435 Rudolf Olah Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:06:58 +0000 http://www.47hats.com/?p=486#comment-26435 What's interesting is that Philip Greenspun advocated something very very similar to this. At ArsDigita he encouraged programmers/developers to write more and to own more pieces of projects so that at the end they could say they developed something instead of saying they participated as part of a 10 or 20 person team to develop something. He had the idea that programmers should be professionals like doctors and lawyers. What’s interesting is that Philip Greenspun advocated something very very similar to this.

At ArsDigita he encouraged programmers/developers to write more and to own more pieces of projects so that at the end they could say they developed something instead of saying they participated as part of a 10 or 20 person team to develop something. He had the idea that programmers should be professionals like doctors and lawyers.

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