The average technologist isn't a technologist: on loving outputs, not the craft
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-10
fkasummer quotes Ben Landau-Taylor — "the average artist likes being an artist; the average programmer likes having computer programs" — and extends it: the average technologist is not really a technologist, whatever their practice.
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