Not true anymore. Every large tech company is now filled to the brim with career managers.

in case this is not sarcasm... tech managers != tech leaders.

most are one, some are neither, and a small minority are both. i have works for more than 20 tech managers in 30+ years, have managed technologists (ops, app-dev, network, infra, etc.) multiple times, and have hired and fired tech managers. i can count the genuine tech leaders+managers i've met on one hand. fewer around than ever nowadays.

> in case this is not sarcasm... tech managers != tech leaders.

I agree that being management doesn't make one a leader. Anyone who has been in the industry for five, ten years knows that a leader may or may not have a management title.

However. It has been the fad for many, many years now for Management to call itself Leadership. [0] This makes it slightly ambiguous, but not at all incorrect to refer to the "management class" as the "leadership class".

[0] I guess their little, tiny, incredibly fragile egos got overly bruised by the years of derogatory commentary aimed at clueless managers, and they -because of their tiny, inadequate brains- decided that A Big Rebrand would change the nature of reality.

i understood that reference... and, like Wash, feel like i'm "flying" a stone at gravity's whim while i pretend to be in control. tech leadership at a lot of corps do the exact same thing most days. a good reason to find your tribe asap, get out of corp, and assert some control.

Its unpredictable what will get announced tomorrow morning. They leverage that space. It's like running the Manhattan Project. But its the Private Sector which is very rare. So the known frames don't fit.

You don’t “leverage a space”. What nonsense is that?

"Critical thinking" is highly over rated. People are just doing what they have been trained to do by someone else, or copying what they see others doing. That's all that is required really.

Its easy to prove - take some one who is quite full of themselves and their critical thinking skills, and put them in a situation they haven't been trained to handle and watch what happens. It doesn't matter who they are.

Humanity survives not because of its critical thinking skills or their ability to solve quantum field equations, but because there are enough surplus people to take a hit when the whole system is thrown into situations where critical thinking does jack.

Having too many alcoholic boomers in the family I have petitioned Hegseth the Barbarian to blow up all boats bringing booze into the country especially from Europe.