Excellence Culture & Humane Keeping of Techies
summary
Claims that routine coding is easily offshored and that tech roles must become T-shaped skills — 10% manager, 10% seller, 10% project lead — to stay paid. Concrete numbers: personal car utilization moves from 7% to 50% with self-driving taxis, implying 80% fewer cars and large job shifts; internal IBM data shows median AQ 25 for engineers (autism-spectrum traits), so lack of empathy and selling kills deals. Examples include Google parcel and Uber investments and an IBM policy lowering top engineers’ customer utilization to 40%.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Excellence culture intro
- 1:56Form vs content in tech
- 4:06Upgrading tech skills beyond code
- 7:21Comfort zone management critique
- 10:10Industry 4.0 and tech work
- 17:20Automation curve and upskilling
- 20:53T-shaped tech roles future
- 25:59Human skills in changing tech
- 32:01Tech teams fail at empathy
- 36:40Willpower rarity in tech
- 41:18Humane keeping: cats vs dogs
- 47:09Agile manifesto struggles
- 52:34Cultural struggles: dogs, sharks, green
- 56:26Complexity vs simplicity in tech
- 1:00:16Q&A
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