Lately, there have been intersting HN posts on the roles for non technical folks - what about mentoring coders at startups? Is there space for this? Would it be generally unwelcome?
Sorry for the US football reference here but one of my favorite players from the Giants - Justin Tuck was recruited by the Raiders. He still has plenty of skill to play the position but is probably not going to be as dominant a player as he was. (All the younger defensive tackles are using Ruby, node.js and Clojure ). But he has been to a few Superbowls and knows how it is done so can mentor younger players and contribute on the field at the same time...
Thus his services are more valuable to the Oakland Raiders (with a younger developing team) as compared to the Giants which is a veteran team...
Sorry for the US football reference here but one of my favorite players from the Giants - Justin Tuck was recruited by the Raiders. He still has plenty of skill to play the position but is probably not going to be as dominant a player as he was. (All the younger defensive tackles are using Ruby, node.js and Clojure ). But he has been to a few Superbowls and knows how it is done so can mentor younger players and contribute on the field at the same time...
Thus his services are more valuable to the Oakland Raiders (with a younger developing team) as compared to the Giants which is a veteran team...