Give Apple and Jobs credit, but if you are in tech give yourself a pat in the back also.
Music is in your blood.
In the “Technology and my hobby/passion series” I have been running, 9 guest posts (so far) have been music related – see below.
When I shared my thought that 15% seemed unusually high in the population (given all the sports, travel, charities and other interests we all have), I got this feedback from some of the authors:
- Richard Hunter at Gartner: “A decade or so ago, Esther Dyson wrote a piece commenting on the high density of serious musicians among the ranks of database technology developers. In 1990, I did a piece for InformationWeek discussing the reasons why music figured so prominently in IT organizations.”
- Gretchen Lindquist at Halliburton “The ability to see and understand both the forest and the trees, as we do in hearing simultaneously the whole and the distinctions among all four parts of SATB music or the many voices and instruments of an opera performance, is critical in working application support in today’s complex ERP landscapes.”
- Guenther Tolkmit at Lawson Software: “I could staff two orchestras (one classical one big band) out of my developers”
Here are the music themed guest columns:
| Jim Berkowitz | Jazz Radio DJ |
| Guenther Tolkmit | Opera |
| Richard Hunter | Second Career in Music |
| Gretchen Lindquist | Soprano Singing |
| Mike Laven | Musical Discoveries |
| Ray Wang | Vinyl DJs |
| Gerlinde Gniewosz | Organ Playing |
| Joe Thornton | Big Band Jazz |
| Devan Sabaratnam | Guitar Rock |
