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deconstruct

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About deconstruct

Technologist & Consultant. https://peterplucinski.com

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    Comment #37841265

    I'm happy to answer. Its word of mouth and referrals.

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    Comment #37830755

    100%. Mostly wagies crunching through JIRA tickets and earning a comfy enough salary with strong opinions on how business works, having never done anything close to it.

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    Comment #37830736

    Most are comfy employees I'd say from the general vibe of the comments.

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    Comment #37830707

    That's right. Large majority of people on here (and especially reddit CS/programming subreddits) are employees and simply comfy in their corporate job. It's not even that most won'…

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    Comment #37830662

    Largely, "consultants" in the software/tech are implementing things. Pure consultants, if they are specialized, can make more than that - and that's because of the value they bring…

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    Comment #37734422

    Looks good. Nice and simple. Its what Postman started as and should have stayed as.

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    Comment #35028917

    I had the same question. It looks to me that you have to add API keys for data sources. Although a lot of work no doubt has gone into this, it seems to me like a bit of a pointless…

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    Comment #34309436

    Sales and marketing, learned they can be. A business without knowing accounting/finance, exist can. (An accountant, hire, one can). For accounting/finance to be useful at all, a bu…

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    Comment #34306085

    Business will involve accounting/finance, sure. It will involve lots of other functions - but business is not defined by accounting/finance. Its defined by people buying a product …

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    Comment #34305874

    Large companies put people in very "tight"/narrow well defined roles (developers included) and like to hire MBAs in C-suite roles. And yes, I agree they will have well defined sale…

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    Comment #34305654

    "learn business" was mentioned but there seems to be a lot discussion here around accounting and finance - those aren't "business", at least not the core of it anyway. Accounting f…

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    Comment #18369201

    "Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor" by Erik Dietrich is an interesting read. Erik talks about his experiences in office politics in large companies. He makes some interesting…

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    Comment #17932305

    There needs to be a productivity tool to help you keep track of productivity tools. I'm surprised there isn't a startup yet for that

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