Re:Ask YC: A startup blog or vlog?
by mechanical_fish on Saturday May 17, 2008 @11:05PM
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Think about all the kick ass products you respect... how much do they blog? vlog? I didn't think so.
This can be incredibly hard for the mind to accept. I used to work in the cell phone components industry. In a fab, you begin to realize how many incredibly talented engineering careers are spent designing and integrating parts that will never be seen by you, the person who carries them in your pocket.
It's weird because that anonymity also works in reverse: The software that I wrote back then has played a crucial role in producing over half a billion parts, for half a billion handsets... and I never really notice, unless I pause to think as I'm doing now. A really astounding percentage of humanity has been touched by my work [1], and they don't know, and they certainly don't care, and I barely even think about it.
[1] Not that this makes me particularly special. There are many thousands of fab techs and engineers who could say the same. Many of you can say the same.
This can be incredibly hard for the mind to accept. I used to work in the cell phone components industry. In a fab, you begin to realize how many incredibly talented engineering careers are spent designing and integrating parts that will never be seen by you, the person who carries them in your pocket.
It's weird because that anonymity also works in reverse: The software that I wrote back then has played a crucial role in producing over half a billion parts, for half a billion handsets... and I never really notice, unless I pause to think as I'm doing now. A really astounding percentage of humanity has been touched by my work [1], and they don't know, and they certainly don't care, and I barely even think about it.
[1] Not that this makes me particularly special. There are many thousands of fab techs and engineers who could say the same. Many of you can say the same.