Re:If only I had ____ I would succeed
by sachinag on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @10:33AM
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I think the sign that I've earned some technical person's respect is when they ask me "why don't you just learn how to code?"
Look, you have to be wired a certain way to be good at code. I'm pretty smart, but I could study and take classes and do whatever and I'd never be anything more than some Indian code monkey. (Hell, I struggle with basic/intermediate SQL SELECT statements.) I think writing code is much more like learning to hit a curveball than it is, say, learning Excel. At the end of the day, there's a certain innate aptitude for the task that goes into it.
Does it suck for someone like me who has the entrepreneurial bug and can't code? Hell yeah, it really sucks. But I'm really good at all the other stuff, and next time around, I know I'll be able to find a great technical co-founder. (Or she'll find me to do the icky business stuff.)
Look, you have to be wired a certain way to be good at code. I'm pretty smart, but I could study and take classes and do whatever and I'd never be anything more than some Indian code monkey. (Hell, I struggle with basic/intermediate SQL SELECT statements.) I think writing code is much more like learning to hit a curveball than it is, say, learning Excel. At the end of the day, there's a certain innate aptitude for the task that goes into it.
Does it suck for someone like me who has the entrepreneurial bug and can't code? Hell yeah, it really sucks. But I'm really good at all the other stuff, and next time around, I know I'll be able to find a great technical co-founder. (Or she'll find me to do the icky business stuff.)