[lordnacho]

> What’s funny to me is how many incompetent “thinkers” appear in meetings.

My thought as well. I also worked in hedge funds for a long time, and I kept getting resistance from the self-proclaimed "thinkers" to do even the most basic project management things like keeping a shared list of bugs, using version control, etc. It became clear that they simply didn't know how to use these tools, while claiming to specialize in financial modelling.

This also turned out to be false, as moving on to other funds I discovered their way of seeing things was quite limited. Which I had a good suspicion of, but other people actually showed me how one could approach things.

Part of that reckoning was that to be good at building financial strategies -something virtually nobody will tell you about- you need to be fairly good with writing code. Not just your Frankenstein of VBA, Excel, and Matlab, but including a fairly deep understanding of algorithms as well as common DevOps tools.