Oddbean

It was actually sort of humbling, for me, as I didn't even realize that they were writing in Simple Coder, until I left them alone for a bit and then went back and tried to understand what they were writing about while I was gone, and it was like OMG I literally can't recognize the words, anymore. 😅 I can't even tell what the topic is. Good grief.

I have always been a polymath, but not an expert in anything. I always hired people that were smarter than me and when it comes to coding, that's pretty much everybody 😂 I am, however, able to see the whole vision and bring the various elements, run by way smarter people than me, together.

Well, it can be a bit useless, on its own, but it's the trait that maximally leverages the other traits and you can spread it very thin over a large group of people. So, it makes sense that there are many more detail thinkers than system thinkers, and then some middle number with both abilities.

I need to know enough about coding to be able to understand other people's programming logic, and to be able to pinpoint a bug in the code, but if it gets too complex or the topic is too obscure, I'm lost. There are some things you can only really understand if you regularly and actively work on them.

I was a "bad" coder until 4GL's came along. I realised I needed to delegate and trust to better coders. I was very lucky, I had a genius coder work for me. He re-wrote a colleagues year long coding project in a weekend because he could see a way to do it better and he always delivered projects with significantly more nuance and understanding than I could ever conceive. Yet I had to encourage him as he didn't understand his own talent or worth and he also needed me to keep him focused in the correct direction and end goal. This is him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-weekes-0426662b/ I employed him at Densitron, before a hostile takeover removed me. I think the last 15 years have been safe work at interesting locations around the world, but coding slot machines for 15 years has to be boring AF. In our time, we created a type of Wolfram Alpha, before it became the thing it is today.