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Only The Paranoid Developer Survives
Just because you are paranoid, it doesn’t mean technology isn’t after you
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. Andy Grove
Do you want to be a developer for a good time or a long time? The technical skills you have know now won’t be enough for projects in the future.
In development, your success will contain the seeds of your own destruction. Technology evolves and developers' skills, knowledge and experience need to evolve with it.
Some changes are huge and a new industry appears like the internet, mobile, AI or DevOps. Big technical changes can disruption (Amazon, Uber, Netflix) and suddenly a new market leader appears and destroys the rivals (Netflix → Blockbuster, Amazon → physical stores).
Developers need to be paranoid to check if a tidal wave of technological change is about to crash down on your cosy world of development.
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