Wednesday, May 06, 2009

This is long, but worth reading. Wonder if the poor guy'll ever touch another computer again. I wouldn't blame him if he didn't. It starts:

"I have been called the devil by strangers and “the Facilitator” by friends. It’s not uncommon for people, when I tell them what I used to do, to ask if I feel guilty. I do, somewhat, and it nags at me. When I put it out of mind, it inevitably resurfaces, like a shipwreck at low tide. It’s been eight years since I compiled a program, but the last one lived on, becoming the industry standard that seeded itself into every investment bank in the world.

I wrote the software that turned mortgages into bonds."

If that doesn't pique your interest, nothing will.

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