Apparently this blog post reminded a friend of mine about an article he read in the nineties called The Hybrid Manager. Essentially, we as developers love technology as it really interests us. But unless we're writing tools to aid development we need to understand at least one other business i.e. the business we write code for.

I don't think enough coders know how the high-end financial world works or what opportunities and interesting work it has. More computer scientists in my industry please, we need your pragmatism!