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by daniel-tlt21 2117 days ago
Software engineers have the technical and cognitive skills to become executives but lack the social skills --> only because they didn't have to learn them, but they definitely can learn them

Software engineers are well-paid and have pretty good work-life balance --> True. One of my friends moved to Silicon Valley to start a company. He's now at Google with a $300K salary and has no incentives to start a business. I do believe though that busyness is a bug, not a feature, of executives' workday