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		<title>They still want to make me a CEO</title>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:36:03 GMT" ctSaves="16" flPreview="false" id="2012.05.01.1791" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1791" text="They still want to make me a CEO" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2012/05/01/theyStillWantToMakeMeACeo.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Tue, 01 May 2012 21:13:50 GMT">
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:30:59 GMT" pgfnum="13844" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/05/01/starryNight.gif&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;91&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named starryNight.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Can you imagine if you wanted to play professional basketball, and you were good, you were on a couple of championship teams, and have set a couple of records, that they'd say to you &quot;Okay, we'll let you play, but you have the be a CEO and give us a business plan we like.&quot;"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:32:08 GMT" pgfnum="13845" text="What if in addition to being a great painter or musician, you also had to look great in a suit and have an MBA?"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:32:25 GMT" pgfnum="13846" text="Or if you wanted to be a surgeon, and had to spend all day every day in meetings with people you don't like or respect, explaining to them, &lt;i&gt;without hurting their feelings&lt;/i&gt; why you have to use this scalpel instead of that one. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:33:37 GMT" pgfnum="13847" text="Maybe you might not be a great CEO but you could paint &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night&quot;&gt;Starry Night&lt;/a&gt; or sing a nice ballad, or arrange flowers nicely, or cook a great meal for 2000 people. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:33:57 GMT" pgfnum="13848" text="There are a lot of talents that have nothing to do with being a CEO. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:45:52 GMT" pgfnum="13855" text="And then there's this..."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:34:07 GMT" pgfnum="13849" text="I don't want to be a CEO."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:34:12 GMT" pgfnum="13850" text="Let me say that slowly."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:34:16 GMT" pgfnum="13851" text="I. Don't. Want. To. Be. A. CEO."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:34:25 GMT" pgfnum="13852" text="But I do love to make software."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 19:34:31 GMT" pgfnum="13853" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/05/01/ceos.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/05/01/ceosInAnArray.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;95&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named ceosInAnArray.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I suspect in 20 or 30 years the tech business, if it survives all the bubbles that will come and go between then and now, will be structured around creative talent as well as corporateness (and I'm being generous to corporateness). But that day has not come yet. And until it does, btw, the tech industry is just as vulnerable and just as dumb as industries it looks down on. As long as you think of programmers as employees and not creative people, or see being a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=ceo&quot;&gt;CEO&lt;/a&gt; as superior to being a world-class developer, you're vulnerable to disruption. Really big time disruption."></outline>
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