The Pragmatic Programmer a Book Review

I think it depends where in the industry. In the startup world, where much of what it says has been internalized in the industry for so long that if you work around the industry, you'll get a lot of it by osmosis, you're probably right. Other places in technology (e.g., in enterprise) I think that's a lot less true, and yet a lot of it is can be just as valid and useful for people working in those environments, even if the its not part of the cultural knowledge they are steeped in.