"Your experience has allowed you to do your job better. [...] O'Reilly is a [...] pundit" Well the thing about pundits is, they know people, and people listen

"Your experience has allowed you to do your job better. [...] O'Reilly is a [...] pundit" Well the thing about pundits is, they know people, and people listen to them. Now don't get me wrong - I see inefficiencies in IT infrastructure everywhere I look - government, healthcare, even large areas of science - but nobody asks me my opinion. Maybe if O'Reilly could inflict me on those people for a couple of hours, they would learn something. [for "me", read "people in our position", not personally me] I have a lot of sympathy for what I think you are saying - that certain classes of people have a gift for self-promotion and get a lot more credit for things instead of the real technical/systems talent, which makes us feel they don't "deserve" it, but that doesn't mean they bring zero to the table, either.