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If this were an easy definition, we'd have less confusion. I think the tech industry is people who are making software (for the most part) and web/app stuff. If you ask someone what their company makes, and they say "an app that lets you", they're in the tech industry.
Tech JOBS are much bigger, because there are coders, ops people, UX, DBAs, etc doing technology-oriented jobs in manufacturing, sales, insurance, transportation, etc.
That said, when we say "people in tech", we generally (and wrongly) mean "people who make the internet".
I'm satisfied by this way of saying it. I'm annoyed by some of the semantics in the same way I'm kind of annoyed by the word "serverless" in relation to that computing trend. But I also need to accept that's what folks settled on and language is hard to control.
Again, great piece above.
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If this were an easy definition, we'd have less confusion. I think the tech industry is people who are making software (for the most part) and web/app stuff. If you ask someone what their company makes, and they say "an app that lets you", they're in the tech industry.
Tech JOBS are much bigger, because there are coders, ops people, UX, DBAs, etc doing technology-oriented jobs in manufacturing, sales, insurance, transportation, etc.
That said, when we say "people in tech", we generally (and wrongly) mean "people who make the internet".
I'm satisfied by this way of saying it. I'm annoyed by some of the semantics in the same way I'm kind of annoyed by the word "serverless" in relation to that computing trend. But I also need to accept that's what folks settled on and language is hard to control.
Again, great piece above.