Good stuff, Steve, as usual!
Many developers in the market today started playing with computers when they were children. These young people began learning their craft as adolescents - or pre-adolescents. As they make the machine do things, they nurture a passion to create, improve, or enable new stuff via the machine. The best tools were once toys. This is a positive driver.
Where's the corollary experience for managers? What happens in a young person's life that makes them desire to become a manager?
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Andy Leonard, Chief Data Engineer, Enterprise Data & Analytics