[Animats]

"This is a trait shared by entrepreneurs, engineers, and extremists. There's a high overlap between the three."

Are management-level terrorists coming from former entrepreneurs? None of the top people in al-Queda were engineers. Bin Laden did come from a family that runs a huge construction company, but he himself never did anything in that area. Within ISIS, many of the top people were either career military or religious. Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi al-Dulaimi was a computer science student, though.

[caseysoftware]

> but he himself never did anything in that area

Other than earn his degree in civil engineering?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_life_of_Osama_bin_Lad...

[diskcat]

He probably earned it because his family is in construction and so it was the 'path' for him.

This is different from some suburban geeky guy who likes computers and decided to study electrical engineering in university. It reflects on his personality more.

[wfo]

The bar for being an engineer is so high these days. Even being an engineer isn't enough.

I know some Scotsmen who might be upset, but they aren't true Scotsmen.

[Gibbon1]

Not having read the article, but never seemed to me that any of these engineers ever practiced once out of college.

[GreaterFool]

In most companies management level people aren't engineers on entrepreneurs either. Isn't it sad that whether you work for a corporation or are a terrorist there's usually a management level guy that's better off than you?