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The term "linear algebra" sounds so innocent.

Early '80s is not the problem twas the Budweiser or Busch Lite in those daze

“Budweiser Light,” came out in 82, I suppose Busch Lite wasn't far behind

Bud Heavy, tequila, scotch, bourbon, and vodka were the problem

That's what I thought before I took the damn course. "Holy crap" is what I thought after the first lecture.

Good times.  Loved that class!   It was way easier than DiffEQ anyway.

My first semester of grad school we all took a course called "Bonding".  Simple enough, right?  I seriously did not understand 90% of the lectures, and couldn't figure out what the book said much either.  I would look around the class and no one else seemed plussed, I figured my graduate career was going to be a short one.  First test, I made a 57 or somesuch, and was third highest grade in the class.  Huh.

The irony of course is that later I got pretty deep into "bonding", but I didn't learn much of anything about it from that class.  I finally read Pauling's book "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" which is remarkably well written and coherent and it started to make sense.

Incidentally, what they teach in freshmen chem is all lies, lies I say.

Yeah, I had nothing to relate to linear algebra. That's probably it.

after college a few years, I was drafting in a large engineering dept.  The county drafting position came open after a retirement.  The engineer offered me the position and was shocked and upset when I didn't accept.
I didn't want to slow play my career away and make average at best salary.
I recommended a friend that worked next to me in the dept.  That was over 30 years ago.  Bob is still there.  Good for Bob.  I'm sure his IPERs account is full and he will retire comfortably some day

Bureaucracy and inefficiency is definitely worst in the government, but it's pretty bad in utilities, among other sectors, too. It's a shame for the economy among other ways that there's so much that large companies could be doing but don't while there's so much that entrepreneurs and small businesses want to do but can't.

I've been saying things similar this for as long as I've been in business - almost 20 years now. I never say "can't" because that is resigning to defeat before even trying. But man, there are a lot of hurdles to overcome.

For sure. The sad thing is that there are a lot of employees who work in these easy jobs doing the same BS every day and just don't care because they have job security and a decent paycheck. There's simply no incentive to be more efficient.

I do think that the corporate world will eventually decline and entrepreneurs and startups will grow faster as new technologies change how the world works. We're already seeing this in a way right now with many companies being forced to adopt remote working whether they wanted to or not. That's just one part of it, but this article covers it pretty well. Cybersecurity is definitely the biggest potential issue:

https://www.techradar.com/news/remote-working-could-put-an-end-to-the-office-as-we-know-it