From: Greg Donald <gdonald@...>
Date: 2009-10-01T10:21:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Exceptional Rails Developer

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:32 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 September 2009 06:54:16 pm Greg Donald wrote:
> I mean, it is nice to occasionally be the smartest person in the room -- or at
> least the most knowledgeable.

I hope to never find myself in that situation.  Surrounding one's self
with subordinates is inconducive to learning.

> But I don't really want to spend my life correcting everyone else's mistakes.

I have observed time and again the easiest path to never be the
"maintenance" coder is to always be the fastest coder.  Smart managers
always place the faster coders out in front doing the quick
prototyping of the new projects.

> As intimidating as it is, I'd much rather work in a place where everyone's
> smarter than me

Always.

> where a bunch of codemonkeys punch a clock

That's the worst, to have to work with uninspired clock-punchers sometimes.


-- 
Greg Donald
http://destiney.com/