My core thesis for optimism about Japan’s future, which is contrarian at home and abroad: I think Tokyo imports the art and science of global scale tech companies from San Francisco before SAN Francisco successfully replicates everything else about Tokyo.https://twitter.com/delk/status/1201307121511325696 …
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it makes sense in software. Take a really long, hard look at why Ruby is where it is technically, versus where it should have been.
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my tl;dr is that you get a Galapagos Islands kind of effect. Really interesting stuff in isolation (sometimes utterly fascinating), but the minute an outside predator gets in, game over.
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From where I'm sitting the problem for technology in Japan is that industry values career generalists over specialists. Every phone interview I've done ends with them trying to convince me that I need to accept their career milestones and a pay cut. No thank you.
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You’re not wrong, but “generalists” is relative. Companies specialise, and their employees are generalists within the scope of that speciality. It’s generalists all the way down, until at some point you are a “generalist” in a very specific field.
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