The Big Dumb Developer

Worse than Failure really hit it out of the park with The Mythical Business Layer. It's a great article that makes the point that developers don't like solving the boring old business problems, so they transform them into big "enterprise" problems that are fun and challenging to solve ... with disastrous results.

If you want to be successful, stop thinking about yourself and start thinking about your customers. This is not a new concept - Dale Carnegie .