I find the opposite. This topic is fascinating to me actually. I'm a system oriented thinker. I don't know how I do it, but I'm able to design forward-thinking

I find the opposite. This topic is fascinating to me actually. I'm a system oriented thinker. I don't know how I do it, but I'm able to design forward-thinking systems in my head... really well. Like large complex systems. I've since validated this with retrospectives (checking my past decisions, how they worked out, and how they compare to others). The systems turn out to be fairly elegant in their simplicity and ability to scale. So what's going on here? I think maybe the answer is pretty simple. Some people are good at building large abstract systems and some people aren't. In fact one thing I'm bad at is narrowly focusing on problems. My solutions are always good enough but not great there. Oversimplified example: if you were to ask me to build a highly performant sorting algorithm I'd probably just give you an okay solution. But if you were to ask me to design a distributed system that runs these sorting algorithms (where the algorithms itself is a black box; implemented already) I'd do really well!