Comments on: You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss by Paul Graham http://www.techdarkside.com/you-werent-meant-to-have-a-boss-by-paul-graham Struggles of a Self-Taught Coder Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:33:27 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dennis Gorelik http://www.techdarkside.com/you-werent-meant-to-have-a-boss-by-paul-graham/comment-page-1#comment-15587 Dennis Gorelik Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:42:34 +0000 http://www.techdarkside.com/you-werent-meant-to-have-a-boss-by-paul-graham#comment-15587 Jeff Atwood thinks that Paul's article is condescending: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001080.html I personally think that Paul's article is just slightly extreme -- the same way as his other articles :-) Response from Dave: <em>I definitely agree Paul's is an extreme position - that's why I think it should be required reading. If he thinks programmers at software companies have lost a part of their souls, I wonder what he would say about programmers in corporate IT? That their souls have been crushed completely?</em> <em> Paul <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/bossnotes.html" rel="nofollow">responded to Jeff's criticism of his article here</a>. I think Atwood missed the point, personally.</em> Jeff Atwood thinks that Paul’s article is condescending:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001080.html

I personally think that Paul’s article is just slightly extreme — the same way as his other articles :-)

Response from Dave:
I definitely agree Paul’s is an extreme position – that’s why I think it should be required reading. If he thinks programmers at software companies have lost a part of their souls, I wonder what he would say about programmers in corporate IT? That their souls have been crushed completely?

Paul responded to Jeff’s criticism of his article here. I think Atwood missed the point, personally.

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