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by jiggawatts 1000 days ago
Very high level people in the tech world are often politicians, climbing the ladder through their social skills.

I've observed an inverse relationship between technical skill and career progression in all technical industries.

It's always the pimply junior contractor tech who is the Global Administrator doing the actual work, and the "very high level people" struggle with copy-paste from one email to another.