Why am I unsubscribing from Medium as a tech info source?

I started writing on Medium in 2016 when I thought it made sense to share helpful info with other people on a platform to which everyone has access. This way you don’t need to promote your content; it is immediately available to everyone, as people say “under their fingertips”.

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How did we get to an IT crisis in 2024?

We live in interesting times. We are doomed to live in this era where computers have replaced people, money has become a virtue, and the connection between ourselves is destroyed by the strong feeling of individualism. But no, I won’t be talking about these obvious things, I will talk about another thing happening in the IT sector. I mean the constant layoffs that have started since the COVID crisis and are continuing even today when thousands of people are losing their jobs and are left to help themselves … individually.

What makes me constantly think about these layoffs? Let’s say I am very close to such examples where highly skilled people are lost, CEOs we are wondering how to get out of the product rabbit hole and companies have made some awful staffing decisions that are still hidden from everyone’s sight. Recently, I figured out that the layoffs.fyi website stands next to my Github pull requests tabs and I just started searching for the reason: “Why?”.

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Are you a product developer or a project developer?

I am so sad to see really good developers leaving because we are not doing products but projects
an unknown CTO

Believe it or not, I heard the above on a lunch with the whole Android team and with the CTO of the whole company that I was working for. What does it mean to build a project vs building a product? Is there such a huge difference when you are developing a software solution? Let’s dig deeper into this.

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