Some further thoughts on "the business idiot" theory. I was once told that the main weakness of engineers/technical people is that they want their work to be used (!!). Yes. But imagine how much time you'd have for politicking and positioning for power if you weren't "distracted" by doing actual useful stuff. I often wonder if this is behind technical people always losing out. Earlier relevant post: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
@bert_hubert re: smart outsourcing, this also came to mind: https://danluu.com/nothing-works/
"... mid-sized tech companies, we can see that they often need to have in-house expertise that's far outside what anyone would consider their core competency unless, e.g., every social media company has kernel expertise as a core competency."
