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Money is to Time as Software is to _____________?

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Friday, September 12, 2003 at 7:03 AM .

We all know the basis of money is time. It would be nice to be truly self-sufficient but in this modern era, that is difficult to do. I certainly have no means to create the power, water, or the coffee that I consume. The only thing I can do is focus on using my time efficiently and being fairly compensated for my time. I exchange my time for money in order to purchase time spend by countless others making the products I depend on.

So what is software? I view software as time. In most cases, software's primary intent is to automate and process data to save people time. The more time software saves, the more valuable it is. Take a spreadsheet, can you imagine performing calculations by hand? Take Blogger (the software I am using now), I write into this little text box via keyboard and it publishes a site for me at the push of a button. Attempting to do this on my own would take time, time to write, time to spellcheck, time to format, time to archive, time to make an RDF file to syndicate to you, and time to FTP everything into place. Blogger allows me to enjoy writing daily without taking much time.

Next time you sit down to write software, focus on saving the end user time. You will find the software you write is infinitely more valuable. Your customer/employer will wonder why it is so great and you will find your time is more valuable to others. I guess if software is time, then I save people time for a living.

Cheers,

ted ;)

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