Being diligent
I ended the last post with stating we are digital craftsmen. All of us who create something in the digital space, from designers to applications to hardware engineers, we all are digital craftsmen. We also need to protect that state. Just like in the years of yore the craftsmen could not be hurried or pressured into making things faster. Whatever was being made was created at the rate it needed to be created at. Definitely this should be put back into place and enforced by us digital craftsmen.
Now the system of craftsmen and guilds is very old indeed, yet it holds a nice good structure and flow to it that draws me to it. The guild is overarching all that fall within the same category of craft. In yore it was all smiths were together or all barrel makers. To differentiate now it could be on language or on skill or both. I do not see that you could not join two guilds, the one of Java and of Python for example.
Then all craftsmen join the guild and apprentices can find a craftsmen that will teach them. So they become journeyman and can transition into becoming a craftsmen themselves through hard work. That means the skills can be honed and mastered.
Also in this day and age I must say I do not solely use these suffixes to mean male humanoids. All humanoids fall in this category.
This path of starting out with no skills is also lost in today's shopping for labour. They demand only people that have the skills already and experience of course. As if you learn that in academic environments.
In addition to all of this the core is that craftsmen are passionate about their craft and protective as well. They want to create the best, most beautiful and most durable long lasting product there is. That entails that they need to experiment and do things just for the love of the craft. We need freedom to roam around and do things solely for the sake of experimentation and experience gain as well as knowledge gain. The frontier aspect is lost, the exploration of new technologies is only done by academics in a scientific manner.
I want to propose a new guild at the same time. A guild that will all be about: Smell the roses coding Coding can be substituted for any other craft.
It means to just happily enjoy the craft you are doing without worrying too much about the consequences.
Let me know if you want to join the guild, and if you have a good name for it.