Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the meaning of life and our purpose on planet Earth. Just kidding! I was thinking why so many programmers are unhappy. Programming is fun and creative after all. The main reason for the unhappiness is that such engineers don’t believe in the software product they’re building. They don’t see how it can benefit end-users. Maybe they don’t even know who their end-users are.
Ship Code That Matters
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the meaning of life and our purpose on planet Earth. Just kidding! I was thinking why so many programmers are unhappy. Programming is fun and creative after all. The main reason for the unhappiness is that such engineers don’t believe in the software product they’re building. They don’t see how it can benefit end-users. Maybe they don’t even know who their end-users are.
This feeling was not unfamiliar to me at times when I was working for government agencies, but it’s foreign to me now. At Storify our team (myself included) love the product. We see the direct impact it brings to the users, e.g., The White House, ABC News and CBS News. Storify enables people to tell their stories which might otherwise get lost in the sea of social media noise. This contemplation brought me to the conclusion that it’s important to ship code that matters.