And yet the incentives could not be clearer... if you want meaningful amounts of actual money that can house and educate your children, you need to let go of fa

And yet the incentives could not be clearer... if you want meaningful amounts of actual money that can house and educate your children, you need to let go of fanciful pursuits like "making stuff people want" and "solving hard technical problems" and instead get good at bureaucrat mode. The most charitable reading of this situation, I think, is that the tech people routinely underestimate the leverage of even mediocre social technology vs. high-end computer-touching skill.