How many coders, devs, programmmers, IT peeps, technical design folks are also musicians and/or seriously in pursuit of music lifelong? Curious to know as for more than 30 years in tech I see a lot of crossover.
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There are ALWAYS other musicians on every team I join, so a huge amount of crossover. I've been in tech nearly 25 years, but did a degree studying jazz. The older I get the more I think it was (for me) the perfect preparation.
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I often think the web at its best is Miles Davis and John Coltrane. at its worst? Smooth jazz. AKA fake nonsense that infuriates me! So yes excellent background you have there! 😂
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Oh yes, Davis and Coltrane are giants. I always say jazz is not so much a musical style, more a state of mind.
My particular love is big band jazz: Ellington, Jones, and more modern stuff like Gordon Goodwin and Michel Camilo's big band album.
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And maybe big bands are a good representation of most modern software development. Lots of people with their own specialities, contributing to an collective output.
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That's getting close to abstract Improv Jazz especially because we have to be improvisational as we code. In fact I think there is a huge corollary between improvisation and innovation. Food for thought! Yummy.
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Of course, improv IS innovation! Just like all innovation builds on work of the past, improv is the remixing of notes and rhythms which have existed for hundreds if not thousands of years. That we find newness and beauty in it is magical.
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By the way, I've written about the development/ jazz thing a few times before. For example: stillbreathing.co.uk/2008/02…
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You are a very good writer. I related deeply. Many used to refer to my generation as rock stars and I hated that because it makes it about me and the web is not about me it's about we. It's important for my notoriously public emo processing to be offset by positive contributions.
Mar 31, 2022 · 12:24 AM UTC
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