Rang a bell..
..I'm tired of meeting clueless senior and very senior people in the tech business who can't see why I would be coding "..this is something you do when you are starting out in your careers,years back..now we have other people (minions) doing it for us .."
..cool as cats.
..well these very experienced "professionals",managers etc. are just that now- professional managers..It's not even fun playing TheEmperorHasNoClothes with them anymore.
..maybe I am gettin old.. :(
Then,I come across this :
Writing code is a form of leadership, because leadership is saying what you think of the world in a clear and visceral way. It doesn't require structural authority. Rather, writing code is functional leadership.This type of blasphemous shit is unsettling to many a UsedToCodeVarietyProfessionalManager
Since leadership has two components (saying and doing), coding is in fact a true expression of leadership because it both expresses ideas and it performs a function.
..leadership for them is manifest in meetings, networking, schmoozing and generally "managing".