u/WillSen wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Actually I do have an answer - it's people who were not on the inside of tech who become experts in these fields and then 'remember their journey' - there's a former public high schooler who then became an ML engineer and is now in whitehouse policy that I think is a potential ha
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I really hope the people impacting Whitehouse policy have more experience that a few years as an ML engineer, even if they are an ML engineer from MIT.
I have about a dozen friends who worked at the Whitehouse in past administrations in various capacities in their post-engineering lives and they had years and years of experience in the trenches and tremendous empathy to interact with people who didn't have that experience.
It was tremendously challenging for them, and it takes a really long time to even know if you had impact.
But they everyone there were true experts who were the best in the country at what they do, from every field, coming together to try to solve problems.
A person bringing a unique background to the table AND who has years and years of tech industry experience, would be an asset at the table, but it's far from the only answer to this.
And guess what! Some of those friends also had EXTREMELY diverse and unique backgrounds too, who remember where their journey VERY well thank you very much.