{"id":16253,"date":"2010-03-02T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T09:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/03\/hijacking-brains-the-why-i-work-at-adobe-story.html"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:33:06","slug":"hijacking_brains_the_why_i_work_at_adobe_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/hijacking_brains_the_why_i_work_at_adobe_s\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijacking Brains: The Why-I-Work-At-Adobe Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 1999, before I came to Adobe and a couple of years before the iPod was introduced, I heard about how Adobe engineer Chris Prosser had, with a friend, built his own MP3 player for his car. As I recall, they’d put an old stripped-down Pentium box into his trunk, fed Ethernet cable up to the glove compartment, attached a simple LCD text display, and written a Java Telnet app to synchronize songs between his laptop & the car system. I thought to myself, “I don’t want to do any of that–but I want to hijack that guy’s brain. If I can make my (and customers’) problems his<\/em> problems, those problems will get solved.”<\/p>\n

I thought of this story when I saw ZhengPing Wang’s “Robot Toy with Flash Player<\/a>,” a homebrew mobile contraption that lets him keep an eye on his young family. ZhengPing is the lead engineer on Adobe Configurator<\/a>, and he’s always up for trying something new.<\/p>\n

I’m told there’s a Japanese proverb, “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare<\/strong>.” If I could code worth a damn, you’d never see me again as I’d never leave my basement. That is, I already have the ideas for what to do, but I need to collaborate with people who can actually turn those ideas into reality. I’m lucky to work somewhere that lets me go beyond daydreaming, at least sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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