Lately, I've been more and more convinced that a liberal arts degree is better career training than a Computer Science or Business degree.

I'm certain that I learned as much about debugging software from Plato as I did from various CS books. I see people packed full of unconnected technology facts and figures, but who can't distinguish between cause vs. correlation.

I'm so terribly frustrated by specialists.

If you ever interview with me (which, more than likely, you will not), don't try to impress me with obscure, geeky details of XSLT or EIBTDA. Please, for the love of God, be able to express why some bit of technology is important, how it will make solving real problems easier.

Very few of us get to write compilers for a living. I want to deal with people with good general knowledge.