Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 14/12/2024 18:56, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:20:58 +0100, D wrote:
 

Sounds like a good man! You should keep him!

 I don't think it was 'What Color is your Parachute' but there was a book
from the '70s that had a punchline like 'How to hire an employer.' It's a
worthwhile way to think. They're not hiring you, you're finding
corporation that will provide a sales force, accountants, and all that
business cruft while you happily write code.
 Many people dream of having their own business. Been there, done that, and
found the business part very tedious.

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Yes and no. I quite enjoyed doing cost benefit analysis. I hated dealing with people.
I only ever managed to fire one person after all his colleagues begged me to do it.

That's the golden combination I have in my own business. I sell, and my partners do the work. They get to focus on technology, and not on selling, and I do the talking, and enviously look at the great technical work they are doing, dreaming of when I was 20 years younger and doing that myself. ;)