Dax Raad

So everything we do and the type of people we try to bring in, I don't know if it generally applies to everyone.

I think the most I could say is, and I've always believed even pre-AI, is

Software engineering is a skill that can be applied to an industry.

And you can just be a great software engineer, and that's totally fine.

You can probably have a good career doing that.

But if you also become an expert in a specific industry, that's like a deadly combo.

If you are like, I don't know, just pick any industry.

Let's say farming.

Let's say you understand the farming industry really well, and you're also a decent software engineer, you're probably like the top 10 people

in the world for that combination that the whole industry will want to hire so like and what's great about being a software engineer is you don't have to pick an industry like everyone else has to be like i'm going to be in medicine for the rest of my life you can choose to do medicine for 10 years of your life and like do tech in in the medical field and become an expert in that and realize you don't like that industry and pick a completely different industry and just go become an expert in that that's so exciting i think software engineers are curious people

And it's just so fun to be able to like deeply learn an industry in that way.

And eventually you'll find something that clicks that you can stick with.

And being a good engineer and also being an industry expert, like it's very easy to become a unicorn of a person that way.

Yeah.

It doesn't take long, right?

You spend like a year in any industry, like you now know it more than like 99% of people.

So I think but I think the trick here is it's very easy to turn your brain off to that side of things and just focus on I'm given a task to like, add something to the UI and like not your opportunity as software engineers, you get to be in any company in the world and learn about anything.

And you should kind of like take advantage of that.

And I think it is a rational career reason to do that as well.

Or reading recommendations.