I do wonder the category of “builder” is real as opposed to a self-congratulatory identity. Yes people build, but it’s a messy and loose group not a tight and coherent identity group. It’s like the difference between people who work in science vs people who post “I fucking love science” slogans

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For this reason I greatly prefer “developers” or “entrepreneurs”. Both of these have better definitions.

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The only problem is externality pricing.

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Yeah, I see what you mean, on LinkedIn I've 100% tuned that word out too.

it's funny I hate the E word because it was LinkedInified which is why I switched to using builder.

Developer totally works

But for some reason it makes me think of a soldier in a legion. Just a cog in a giant corp