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pastoday at 10:15 AM0 repliesview on HN

yes, so situational awareness is even more fundamental than communication

especially because people hired by people hired by people (....) hired by founders (or delegated by some board that's voted by successful business people) did not get there by being engineering minded.

and this is inconceivable for most engineering minded people!

they don't care because their world, their life, their problems and their solutions are completely devoid of that mindset.

some very convincing founder types try to imitate it, some dropouts who spent a few years around people who have this mindset can also imitate it for a while, but their for them it's just a thing like the government, history, or geography, it's just there, if there's a hill they just go around, they don't want to understand why it's there, what's there, what's under it, what geological processes formed it, why, how, how long it will be there ...