Having worked with a lot of intelligent engineers (mostly EE) I would suggest that they are no more capable of making rational business decisions than anyone else.
The only thing I really took from the experience is to learn from other people’s mistakes because it hurts less than learning from your own.
My take home is that you should use a proper decision analysis framework for issues like this to test your own biases, reasonings and criteria. Sometimes your conclusion is not what you expected. Much pain saved.
The only thing I really took from the experience is to learn from other people’s mistakes because it hurts less than learning from your own.
My take home is that you should use a proper decision analysis framework for issues like this to test your own biases, reasonings and criteria. Sometimes your conclusion is not what you expected. Much pain saved.