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You don't necessarily have to be good at running a company to be good at criticizing how others do it.

Same way you don't have to be a professional football player to commentate football.

In fairness, a more accurate analogy would be a poor football player criticizing better ones.

If you take “Moneyball” as an example, sometimes a poor but experienced football player might be more insightful about success and failure than a player who is successful based on “natural talent” and/or following conventional wisdom.

(That’s what I tell myself every time I write a blog post about programming...)

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