Reductionist history doesn't help here. Software development goes twenty or thirty years beyond startups.
I've crashed and burned startups while never comparing any of them to driving half-blind without my glasses at night.
Human sciences and user research provide excellent solutions to customer behavior. Like F1 cockpits, the risk scales with the domain.
F1 is not just a vector sport. If it were, math may be enough to win. Turns out F1 takes engineering, mechanics, and a driver.
However, viewed through a macroscope, F1 dynamics are closer to a cooperative game, as in software development.
While an unknown in software is competition, much larger unknowns are given by shifts in teams, machines, and their methods.
Turns out that comparing F1 and software development from 1970 to 2020 are remarkably the same story for much the same reason. Neither exist in stasis.
F1 and software development have more in common than is obvious from the grandstand.
I've crashed and burned startups while never comparing any of them to driving half-blind without my glasses at night.
Human sciences and user research provide excellent solutions to customer behavior. Like F1 cockpits, the risk scales with the domain.
F1 is not just a vector sport. If it were, math may be enough to win. Turns out F1 takes engineering, mechanics, and a driver.
However, viewed through a macroscope, F1 dynamics are closer to a cooperative game, as in software development.
While an unknown in software is competition, much larger unknowns are given by shifts in teams, machines, and their methods.
Turns out that comparing F1 and software development from 1970 to 2020 are remarkably the same story for much the same reason. Neither exist in stasis.
F1 and software development have more in common than is obvious from the grandstand.