Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.
Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.
Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.
