This doesn't just apply to academia. You can always see it in the workforce. And, more visibly, in the primary, secondary schools. Good hackers rarely make good

This doesn't just apply to academia. You can always see it in the workforce. And, more visibly, in the primary, secondary schools. Good hackers rarely make good managers, and good managers get promoted not because they are good at hacking code. My mother told me a story about giving a glowing review to her colleague, not because she was a good worker, but because she wanted her out of her hair. She wasn't fireable, so the only option was to send her somewhere else. And most people will first encounter this in school. Where the best teachers don't always have the best titles. And the worst are always promoted. Teachers have strong unions so if you can't fire them then you can promote them. Some of the worst human beings I've ever met were vice-principals. People who clearly have no business in education at all. But through fortune and incompetence are given titles and offices away from students.