I have no axe to grind, irt data science/engineering, as I have no experience in either.
However, it seems this person's biggest gripe is with good old crap management; the bane of business for hundreds of years.
This line stood out:
> Companies all over were consistently pursuing things that could be reasoned about a priori as being insane ideas– ideas any decently smart person should know wouldn’t work before they’re tried.
That pretty much summarizes why I have been told that today's companies want only young people. Us "olds," are "negative naysayers," who say things like "You know that the laws of physics forbid this, right?" or "I tried that, a couple of years ago. It didn't work out, and here's why...".
Apparently, young people are able to do the impossible, because they haven't been told it's impossible, and mixing "olds" with them, spoils the soup, by telling them it's impossible (or maybe a lot more difficult that they imagine).
However, it seems this person's biggest gripe is with good old crap management; the bane of business for hundreds of years.
This line stood out:
> Companies all over were consistently pursuing things that could be reasoned about a priori as being insane ideas– ideas any decently smart person should know wouldn’t work before they’re tried.
That pretty much summarizes why I have been told that today's companies want only young people. Us "olds," are "negative naysayers," who say things like "You know that the laws of physics forbid this, right?" or "I tried that, a couple of years ago. It didn't work out, and here's why...".
Apparently, young people are able to do the impossible, because they haven't been told it's impossible, and mixing "olds" with them, spoils the soup, by telling them it's impossible (or maybe a lot more difficult that they imagine).