[renewiltord]

If the general HN consensus is to be believed, Professional Engineers and Software Engineers Who Write Bare-Metal Code are the only people who have ever attained success commensurate with their effort. Everyone else seems to have had disproportionate advantage - Elon Musk was given too much by his dad, Sheryl Sandberg made friends outside her lane, presumably Steve Jobs parasitized Woz.

Curious distribution. At the bottom are the losers, at the top the cheaters. In the middle are those whose brilliance is undetected by bean counting MBAs who presumably also support open offices, NFTs, and Apple CSAM scanning.

[astrange]

Didn't mean to say that was bad, it worked for her. I said she didn't write a book about how to do it.

Also worked for at least one president of YC.

[tasubotadas]

Spot on