I worked with such a person, briefly. It seems he had never heard the phrase "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line". He had plans for t

I worked with such a person, briefly. It seems he had never heard the phrase "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line". He had plans for the product stretching out 5 years, and architected accordingly. He knew exactly why each piece was done the way it was done, and could hold it all in his head. But when he was reassigned to a different project after 6 months, the rest of us had to pick up the pieces.