I recently finished reading Seth Godin’s Tribes. It’s a great little book describing the effect that the internet and social media has had on empowering the individual. We’ve seen this effect in business, technology, and entertainment. It is now extremely easy for one person with a good idea to get it front of the community. To get it the attention that it deserves.
This book really got me thinking. What tribes do I belong to? We’ve heard it said “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life” and “Follow your bliss”. I love building elegant systems — especially software. I want to hear from you if you share this passion. I want to trade ideas with you about the best way to do that. That’s our tribe.
Over the course of maintaining this blog, I expect most of my posts to relate to the following 4 assertions:
- Good software makes users lives better.
- Building good software is hard but it can be easier.
- Happy developers build good software.
- Happy developers use powerful tools.
What is your passion? What is your tribe?
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