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I think the author made two mistakes:

- Assuming that engineers aren't creative, and want to work on well defined problems with well defined inputs.

- Confused our parents generation of engineers with ours.

The skills of building a good technology can also be applied to building a good company. This is one reason (intellectual signalling is another) that MBA programs like to admit engineers.




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