Do you think engineers are better at identifying risks or opportunities? I feel like we naturally gravitate toward risk detection, sometimes at the expense of seeing upside.

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Depends a lot on personality, but in general we're better trained at identifying and mitigating failure modes. So risk reduction is a powerful skill for us.

But while our blind spot may be on identifying opportunities from a "market opportunity" stand point, our superpower on that side is our ability to translate solutions and technologies across domains. Processes and technologies in one field used very differently elsewhere to bring home big wins.

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I think we are better at seeing risks and then being too scared to take them

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