{"id":984,"date":"2008-10-16T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T10:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/984-losing-your-religion-how-to-survive-the-tech-downturn.html"},"modified":"2008-10-16T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T10:06:56","slug":"losing-your-religion-how-to-survive-the-tech-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/984-losing-your-religion-how-to-survive-the-tech-downturn.html","title":{"rendered":"Losing your religion: how to survive the tech downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjoblog.co.uk\/2008\/10\/the-most-striking-talk-in.html\">piece on itjoblog<\/a> summarizing and reflecting on Tim Bray\u2019s tips for surviving the tech downturn, if you are a software developer.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was another grim one on the world\u2019s stock markets; this morning the London stock exchange is down another 3.74% at the time of writing. I\u2019m not seeing much reason to doubt Bray\u2019s pessimism. Still, there\u2019s always tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:34cfd8c6-6f36-40ac-b1a5-d8ae9ad1458b\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/tim+bray\" rel=\"tag\">tim bray<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/fowa+2008+london\" rel=\"tag\">fowa 2008 london<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a piece on itjoblog summarizing and reflecting on Tim Bray\u2019s tips for surviving the tech downturn, if you are a software developer. Yesterday was another grim one on the world\u2019s stock markets; this morning the London stock exchange is down another 3.74% at the time of writing. I\u2019m not seeing much reason to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/984-losing-your-religion-how-to-survive-the-tech-downturn.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Losing your religion: how to survive the tech downturn<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}