"That’s why I’m encouraging my kids to pursue a liberal arts education. I can’t think of another course of study that would prepare them better for the future."

"That’s why I’m encouraging my kids to pursue a liberal arts education. I can’t think of another course of study that would prepare them better for the future." This has nothing whatsoever to do with what he wrote about the diminishing returns of pure engineering skill over the past ten years, and I'm not sure why he chose to conclude with this. I fail to see the connection between a liberal arts education and "a competency of customer understanding... [that] includes a vision of solving problems the customer has yet to anticipate." Engineering is still going to be a fine career choice for a long time, and unless that liberal arts education comes with a specific mandate to study the current whims of the marketplace and how to create products to serve them, his kids are going to be in a rough spot when they graduate.