Excel is great if you don’t care if the answers you get are right. I think about that time I have a talk in NYC where there was an error in a chart because I made it with Excel but only found out when I gave the talk in Ithaca later and had somebody really detail oriented in the audience.

It's a fun read, but the end is a bit wild imo.

I think the reason for needlessly complex software is, that at some point a developer with a really high IQ is need (the famous 10x).

We needed a lot programmers, so the relative number of those guys went down.

And to be honest I think those people dont even do well in corporate environments. Imo the most successful people there have like 110 and can really enjoy senseless discussion in useless meetings