I'm trying to ignore the market as it really has little significant impact on what I'm doing. The effects it has on me are:
- It is creating a scarcity in developer resources. This just forces me to relearn how to write good software, definitely not a bad thing.
- It is generating a lot of interest and investment in various tools that I can build, saving me effort and producing a better product.
Those are the good impacts.
It does create a sour grapes type of emotion that I try to put aside. $41M would go a long way towards funding a lot of small startups, or supporting animal shelters that are swamped due to people no longer being able to afford their pets, or building companies that would employ people that lack high tech skills or the opportunity to employ those skills if they could acquire them.
(And if you think "Oh, anyone can refocus themselves and get in the game, come live in the rural midwest for awhile and then tell me that.)
- It is creating a scarcity in developer resources. This just forces me to relearn how to write good software, definitely not a bad thing. - It is generating a lot of interest and investment in various tools that I can build, saving me effort and producing a better product.
Those are the good impacts.
It does create a sour grapes type of emotion that I try to put aside. $41M would go a long way towards funding a lot of small startups, or supporting animal shelters that are swamped due to people no longer being able to afford their pets, or building companies that would employ people that lack high tech skills or the opportunity to employ those skills if they could acquire them.
(And if you think "Oh, anyone can refocus themselves and get in the game, come live in the rural midwest for awhile and then tell me that.)