When I was a student, I read a lot about how Silicon Valley companies were looking for 'problem solvers' rather than people with experience with specific technologies. At the time, this struck me as odd because problem solvers are not rare. Most people can solve a problem if you explain it to them. Indeed, the lesson from most of the formal verification classes was that a sufficiently detailed description of a problem is indistinguishable from a solution to that problem.

The real rare skill is working out which problems are the right ones to solve. Without that, you keep falling down dead-end rabbit holes and chasing local optima.

Everything I've seen in the last decade or so indicates what happens when problem solvers end up in senior leadership positions. You get companies that are great at solving completely the wrong problems.

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