This simple post by Seth Godin explains why I left corporate IT for Macromedia, then Adobe, Flash design and development and then quit doing Flash work to focus on iPhone apps. If you want to work with bureaucrats, work in TV or old print media. If you want to listen to MBAs mumble on about Facebook and Twitter valuations, the web industry might still be a good fit for you. Right now, today, mobile is full of artists and technicians that are driving a huge shift into the post-desktop world. Eventually, we'll leave mobile behind. I wonder what we'll do next, when the MBAs invade mobile?
- Technicians who invented it, run it
- Technicians with taste, leverage it
- Artists take over from the technicians
- MBAs take over from the artists
- Bureaucrats drive the medium to banality
TV used to be driven by the guys who knew how to run cameras and transmitters. Then it got handed off to the Ernie Kovacs/Rod Serling types. Then the financial operators like ITT and Gulf + Western milked it. And finally it's just a job.
Same thing happened to oil painting and it'll happen to your favorite slice of the web as well.
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