The people at The Daily WTF decided to start a job board, HiddenNetwork.com, with the stated mission to “put top-talent within the reach of employers by advertising high-quality job opportunities”. The job board is not the first attempt at this. For example, Joel Spolsky (of Joel On Software) has his own niche job board with similar goals.
What I found interesting about the new job board announcement was this observation:
Have you ever noticed how, out of all the people you work with, the ones who read tech blogs are the strongest employees? It’s not that reading blogs inherently makes you smarter, but in order to read tech blogs, you need to deeply care about technology and have a passion to improve yourself and learn more.
When people ask me how I can afford reading one hour of tech-related news every day as part of my working hours, I say that as far as I’m concerned this is part of my job. I’m a better programmer thanks to reading about new software at freshmeat.net or even reading about new Web 2.0 start-ups although my job has no relation to the world wide web. Knowing what’s going on in the tech world is a good way of keeping my mind sharp and learning new things.
Amen.
you are right, one has to read. It is very easy to become centered and focused in a small frame.
Thank you both.
I’ll keep reading :)