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Kalzumeus Podcast 3: Growing Consulting Practices, with Brennan Dunn

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Why You Shouldn't Be a Commodity When You Write Clean Code

In his new book, Odesk co-founder and CEO Patrick Byrne says programmers should think of themselves as commodities. He argues that if you're a $100 an hour Ruby developer but someone else is paying $5 per hour for the same work, there's no reason your client or potential client shouldn't be hiring him instead. But he also advises developers to understand their customers' language in order to gain more value from their work. "Learn the language of your customers"

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