Yesterday I recorded a podcast with Matt Groves -- a concept I've started calling "The Farmer Effect". A few years ago, while sitting around with a bunch of teams, someone I was working with and I hit a wall. I can't remember what it was, but it just wasn't going to work and I said "to hell with this, let's all quit and go be farmers". A large number of devs agreed and started talking about how they'd rather spend a week in a field, or swinging a hammer ...than work on yet another report.
That touched a nerve. From this frustration, how possible could it be that a full rejection of technology in nearly every way ... not seem crazy? Like it's not a bad idea? How and why was it a thing that a number of us all felt and was serious about?? I started asking more people in technology and many of them (~90% so far) had the same feeling with various degrees of intensity. A desire to do "hardware" instead of software. I started digging, asking more questions. More...
The online conference. We've all been on these. Someone can't figure out how to connect. Or someone's headset / phone is cutting out. Or people talk over each other. Or saying their name when every time they speak (it shows up letting everyone know who it is). Really I mean like this ...
More likely than not, it's been some variety of the one above. On average, all of these things happen on every call and I have no idea why, it all seems so simple. One day, after talking to a prospective client this email hit my inbox.
"Find out what headset Jesse is using. His audio has been fantastic and I want to know all his secrets..."
Well, here's my list of secrets... :spoiler, it is nothing magical:
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