Thanks to Joel, I came across this post. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/05/not-managing-software-developers.html, to me this makes a lot of sense. Having led a team and managed before I can thoroughly agree with this. I think I was average, at best. I tried to empathise, think I managed it, but did I lead, probably not (I can only think of a few times when I did). That’s why I changed career, now I do something I’m passionate about and I’m always pushing for more, newer, better, simpler, faster. I get involved in everything from Architecture to deployment and I enjoy doing it. Whether everybody wants me sticking my nose in all the time is up for debate :).
Later on however in the comments there is a link to http://home.austin.rr.com/eyasin/bpmanaging.htm, which has to be an attempt at humour. This smells of my worst every employer but 10x worse, and he was an ex-trader now risking his own money. Is somebody trying to out-‘pointy haired boss’ dilbert?