"We're in the most ridiculous industry on earth."

I stumbled across Zach Holman’s blog via a post on Signal vs. Noise. It was about his screencast Automating Inefficiencies, you should check this out as well.

Anyway, I skimmed the headlines in his blog and ended up reading quite some of the articles. Not sure what happened last October but I somehow missed Facelette, his one-hour project which hit TechCrunch in three hours.

In the post he points out he did Facelette for the sake of hacking, not to start the-next-big-thing™ what indeed was what some people thought about it.

Instead, for him…

We’re in the most ridiculous industry on earth. You can whip something up in a few hours and before you know it, people around the world will be using it. That is insane. An architect or a fireman or a lawyer or anyone else can’t say that for their profession or their hobby.

Zach Holman

Read the whole piece, there also is some wisdom by _why in there.

Okay, what is my point again? @holman is a cool guy, yes.

But reading those lines made me also realize once again, tools and the cleverest plans don’t matter – execution counts. Hack something up, flip the switch and see how it goes. This also confirmed me again, studying Computer Science and especially being creative & curious about related subjects enables me (at least potentially, let’s see how that goes…) to be in this industry, the most ridiculous on earth.

And who wouldn’t want to work there?