Seems to me like the 80/20 paradox: The "tangential stuff" is the essential 20% of the business that takes 80% of the effort to implement. The stuff "the worl

Seems to me like the 80/20 paradox: The "tangential stuff" is the essential 20% of the business that takes 80% of the effort to implement. The stuff "the world is" is what you see and get celebrated for - which looks like 80% but takes actually only 20% of the competence and energy to realize. This is why those talking the most - those who make the big plans and work out the "strategies" make the most money and the fastest career - but the engineers who are doing the actual work - who make those ideas real do not get much credit.