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Keeping Technical Talent or Why I Just Quit My Job

[caption id="attachment_292” align="alignleft” width="178” caption="Spolsky Drinking Straight Vodka… L’Chaim!"][/caption] I’ve been a long time reader of Joel Splosky. I enjoy his writing. He is Jewish, opinionated, and successful. I, am only opinionated so I enjoy his differing experience from my own. Joel runs a software development firm in NYC. He also really understands developers. His business model is, in short: Hire great developers, keep them happy, count the money. While his writing is almost totally focused on software developers, there are a LOT of allegories with other technical knowledge workers.