Giving people the recognition and respect they deserve is the start of helping evolve open source software into a more sustainable ecosystem.

The system won’t work if there are no developers. It also won’t work if we fire the sales team or get rid of the marketing staff or can the designers. Tech is an ecosystem, and it’s much healthier when we are working cohesively within that system.

Social media jobs may not involve coding. They may not involve debugging. They may not involve writing a novel or reporting. But they’re still analytical as fuck, with a measure of art in there.

The job search in tech equals an unpaid full-time job.

Instead of prioritizing coding work, we should instead look at our teams and companies as a complex and intricate organism, requiring every part of it to cooperate in order to work.

What message are we sending about the tech industry to people who don’t want to be developers, after all?