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Also check out the most recent episode of the Capitalisnt podcast. As per usual, Luigi Zingales is a little hard to take and a little too interested in his own first thought on the topic. But Walt Bogdanish does a decent job pushing back and it makes you want to read his articles and book about McKinsey.

This is why it's important to shame Amazon and other workplaces with ludicrous cultures that damage their tech employees mental health.

> Tech workers have low levels of trust in leaders—even their own

I found this interesting and particularly relevant to the question of how we organize collaborations between the DoD and Silicon Valley. Having gone from RAND to Silicon Valley, I experienced a major culture shock. (Side note: hi you two! Funny that the comment section is us.) I can't imagine many tech workers would be too keen on how the DoD or even most Beltway Bandits manage their projects and workers.

I made this transition a few years ago. Prioritize studying Python. Leetcode. Make sure you're familiar with git. And then pick 2 or 3 sub-genres of Data Science and study those. Operations Research, experimentation and statistical tests, Causal Inference, Computer Vision, NLP, etc. Then apply for Senior Data Scientist or Senior Applied Scientist roles in those areas. The hiring process is broken and based on quickfire technical tests. There are huge numbers of people trying to break in to DS. Be prepared for lots of rejections. Be positive during initial calls with recruiters; they are just looking for a reason to filter you out and don't actually know much about the job. Good luck!