This has had me thinking all day about situations and industries where we all assume the “experts” have it “figured out”. I don’t think these people are stupid

This has had me thinking all day about situations and industries where we all assume the “experts” have it “figured out”. I don’t think these people are stupid, there’s just this huge combination of junk that stacks up that nobody fully understands over time. It’s a lot like a really large, old codebases. Nobody dares to look under the covers and change anything out of fear of it breaking. What it takes is an outside who doesn’t know any better to start poking and prodding at it to see what it does. In this case Ryan effectively ran a profiler on the Long Beach port, a “decades old codebase”, and found a hotspot that was created by a deadlock between the local government and the yards. What other physical world situations can you think of what would benefit from an outside running a “profiler” against it?