Re: Managing Engineers

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

"David M. Brown" wrote:

> 
> I gotta go with Andrew on this one.  The most successful writers I've
> worked with have come from strong technical backgrounds or at least been
> "of a technical mind."
> 

An insight into that "technical mind":

Most programmers insist that "hacker" doesn't mean a person who
breaks into other people's computers illegally, but someone who
likes to nose around learning how things work (that's a "cracker").
Originally, I had no formal technical background at all, but I've
learned and thrived and get along with most of the developers
because I have the same type of curiosity.

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