Somewhat apropos my last post, in the sense that most of the people I miss would fit squarely into the first category (even when they’re not programmers but technicians or marketeers, they share the drive).
As an aside, I’m constantly (but moderately) pissed at being pigeonholed as a non-technical person by techies or as a non-product person by marketing types these days, and yet find so many similar traits (and even mental gears) among either camp.