So the takeaway of the article as far as I can tell is that technologists (it talks about software ones but you could abstract it out to all technology discipli

So the takeaway of the article as far as I can tell is that technologists (it talks about software ones but you could abstract it out to all technology disciplines) aren't good at being powerful. Which makes sense. To be popular in high school, or to get elected, requires mastering the nuances of the social order, whereas being an engineer requires mastering the nuances of some technological problem domain. It's pretty rare for someone to have mastered both. Obviously there are exceptions but in the general case the article is right, technologists don't rule the world; they're the primary instruments by which others rule.