Marc Brooker

They're going to look different later on.

I think the software business is going to look different.

And the success of people and organizations over the next, who knows, five years, decade, is going to be largely predicated on their ability to adapt to that change and to lead that change.

Yeah, I think that's the right takeaway.

And so if I sort of break down the world into three tiers, I think there's going to remain a huge amount of joy in the craft of software.

like the craft of joinery with hand saws.

It's a nice way to spend time.

It's not a particularly economically interesting activity anymore, but not everything we do has to be an economically interesting opportunity.

It can just be something I do because I enjoy it, because I enjoy the product of it, because I enjoy talking to people about it.

I don't think that is going to go away.

I think we're going to see

you know, a lot of interest in that.

Like there's been interest in retrocomputing and, you know, people who run an Apple II as their desktop.

And like, well, again, it's wildly impractical.

It's not economically interesting, but it's fun and something I, you know, could do as a hobby.

And so, you know, that's going to be a remaining part of the world of software for probably forever.

And then there's this, you know, kind of story that I told in the blog post

And I think this relates to driving change in the real world.

It's always harder than it looks from the outside.

As you get into the details, things become more difficult.