I get the reaction but I suggest that your previous work has set you up to make decisions “in the right direction” time and again.
It’s a bit like saying “darn I can never remember which Prime Minster passed the corn laws or the name of the guy who started refrigerated shipping in the USA.
The point is if we have a grasp of the essential narrative (something like “wars require engineering, agricultural revolution, Industrial Revolution, history is class warfare” that background acts like a magnetic field for all the new pieces of information, aligning them correctly.
Thanks for that! I think I wrote that comment a little more negative-sounding than it was in my head. While I do lament skills I've lost and forgotten over the years, I know my EE background came in handy when writing software professionally for embedded and semi-embedded devices, earlier in my career. These days I've moved on to distributed systems, so all that low-level knowledge isn't quite as useful as it once was.
It’s a bit like saying “darn I can never remember which Prime Minster passed the corn laws or the name of the guy who started refrigerated shipping in the USA.
The point is if we have a grasp of the essential narrative (something like “wars require engineering, agricultural revolution, Industrial Revolution, history is class warfare” that background acts like a magnetic field for all the new pieces of information, aligning them correctly.
Anyway, relax, be kinder to yourself.