> if you're smart enough to work at Google, you're smart enough to manage your own OS Regardless of the scale, that is a recipe for having your highly capable,

> if you're smart enough to work at Google, you're smart enough to manage your own OS Regardless of the scale, that is a recipe for having your highly capable, highly paid engineers losing hours, days, even worse - to annoying configuration issues etc. Sometimes it's the right thing to do (e.g. very early stage, no IT infra) but if you can have an IT person who is actually good/experienced at this sort of thing sort out the core problems, it's way more efficient. It's astonishing how much collective time can be wasted on "well, it works on my machine" issues. This makes it worth coming up with some sort of systematic way to avoid (mostly) it.