This article finally made me understand why I don't always learn from Rands' essays: he's not a detail person.

When he talks about technical stuff - the Free Electron, Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder - I'm nodding along and he's explaining a ton of reasons for phenomena that I had noticed but didn't understand.

When he talks about manager stuff - I'm the boss for now, What to do when screwed - I don't get it. Because I have only just started doing some management, I can't fill in the blanks of most of the situations he's talking about because I haven't experienced them as a manager.

So, he's kind of like one of those automap things in a computer game - you can see the structure and reasoning to your journey and experiences, but only once you've fucking got there.