There have been a few posts on HN recently that make this same misunderstanding. Problems in the web/social industry are rarely well-defined, and people think t

There have been a few posts on HN recently that make this same misunderstanding. Problems in the web/social industry are rarely well-defined, and people think the problem is that we don't have good algorithms or that thinking hard is somehow ineffective. But the real problem is nobody clearly knows what the problem is. I claim that this is the clearest evidence that software engineers should develop more mathematical thinking skills.