> The intersection of people who can run a 15-minute two mile and dissect a Windows kernel memory dump is vanishingly small. When I was doing consulting comput

> The intersection of people who can run a 15-minute two mile and dissect a Windows kernel memory dump is vanishingly small. When I was doing consulting computer stuff for aviation safety[1], I used to joke to myself that I had The Right Stuff... for sitting on my butt, typing on a computer. But I never voiced that joke in the presence of clients or partner organizations. Where some of the personnel were actual fighter pilots, and who knows what else. [1] Incidentally, that might be the work I'm most proud of being a part of. I'm not disrespecting government work at all. I only pivoted from Federal technical consulting, back to tech industry startups, because of performing like a FAANG ~L7 for years, yet still not being able to afford a condo in my HCOLA. (And, just when I'd finally verbally negotiated a big chunk of work that would've fixed the money problem, a perfect storm of bad luck ruined that.)