Megan McArdle
When I started in IT consulting in the 1990s, my boss said “on the first six months of this job, all you need to be able to do is breathe and carry a tool bag”. One of our best network engineers had been a porter at a bank where my firm did work, and the best guy I worked with
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌
@TheStalwart @ByrneHobart Michael Lewis captured a bit of that change in Liars poker, but over my career it went from a healthy dose of back office guys turned MDs running stuff, to entirely MBAs or PhDs