> The big tip-off that all is not as it seems is that he calls himself "Uncle Bob" Martin.
Totally agree. I believe "Uncle" is a pretty ingenious piece of branding meant to paint him as an implicitly trustworthy and wise figure that I should feel endeared to. He's just a guy who has built a career out of offering his opinions on how others should do a job he's never done. Notice that his About page [0] doesn't mention a single piece of software that he's actually built.
He reminds me of a company I used to work for. It was a healthcare architecture firm that got sued so many times for their fuckups that they pivoted to being a "thought leader" in their industry. Instead of continuing to build hospitals, they focused on consulting and publishing articles with their innovative [1] ideas about how hospitals should be designed. A classic case of "those who can't do, teach".
[1] I shit you not, one of their ideas was a "hover gurney" that was basically a giant quadcopter with a bed on it. It was supposed to be easier to move. Blasting germs all over the hallway with hurricane-force winds was apparently not an issue anyone thought worthy of consideration.
Totally agree. I believe "Uncle" is a pretty ingenious piece of branding meant to paint him as an implicitly trustworthy and wise figure that I should feel endeared to. He's just a guy who has built a career out of offering his opinions on how others should do a job he's never done. Notice that his About page [0] doesn't mention a single piece of software that he's actually built.
He reminds me of a company I used to work for. It was a healthcare architecture firm that got sued so many times for their fuckups that they pivoted to being a "thought leader" in their industry. Instead of continuing to build hospitals, they focused on consulting and publishing articles with their innovative [1] ideas about how hospitals should be designed. A classic case of "those who can't do, teach".
[0] http://cleancoder.com/files/about.md
[1] I shit you not, one of their ideas was a "hover gurney" that was basically a giant quadcopter with a bed on it. It was supposed to be easier to move. Blasting germs all over the hallway with hurricane-force winds was apparently not an issue anyone thought worthy of consideration.