Post by @andyc

Pondering on the following:-

1. It must be very difficult to design a Mastodon (or any) client without being coloured and influenced by the 157 pre-existing clients. A little like trying to write a song or a guitar riff without ripping off the Beatles. Never stopped Oasis though.

2. There are plenty of brilliant technical folk. Over the years, I've worked with many. However, some (I wouldn't say most) tend to be quite narrow in outlook i.e. they are purely database or network administrators, architects, security experts, Web designers or mobile developers. Brilliant and highly skilled in their specific domain. However, not many of them are skilled in all areas and have no interest whatsoever in changing that.