Daniel Pink on Why Your Programming Job is Getting Outsourced to India

Tue 11/06/07

[In the long term] any job that’s knowledge-based and routine—that can be reduced to a set of rules—is gone…the jobs that remain are those that depend on forging relationships rather than executing transactions, tapping emotions instead of manipulating logic, handling novel challenges instead of processing routine problems, synthesizing the big picture instead of calculating the details.
— Daniel Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind

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  1. Grant

    “any job that’s knowledge-based and routine—that can be reduced to a set of rules—is gone”

    awesome – i love this way of explaining it because it leaves room for the fact that there will always be room for truly creative anything – programming, design, etc. – that won’t get outsourced – and by this definition, I think we’ll even see some design get outsourced – the mundane stuff, the repetitive stuff – the stuff that requires closely adhering to a stringent set of graphic standards that someone else has already created..

    Tue 11/06/07 at 2:24 pm

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