do you have any contact info that we can reach out to?

Have you been self-employed before?

It's abstraction, but for things you don't care about. I was an engineer early in my career and I felt exactly as you. All that stuff was in one ear and out the other and I couldn't for the life of me make sense of it.

I moved to product and finally got it. A PM can't explain the same concepts/ideas/initiatives/etc every meeting because the whole meeting will be spent doing that. They give it a name.

Take the strategy example. In the early stages of forming this strategy, part of the PMs job is to communicate it lots of groups of people. They have the same meeting 1-10 times depending on the size of the company. Then everyone who needs to know about this strategy has an understanding of what it is. Then the PM gives it a name. The next meeting, rather than having to explain it from scratch, they call it by its name.

You're either not paying attention when it is first explained (I don't blame you, a lot doesn't matter to an engineer), or you weren't invited to the meeting it was explained.

And isn’t Wasm supposed to (some day) free us from the need to pick JS for the front end?

> Spending over $500 in a year on clothing is totally alien to me!

If you care about ethical production it's difficult to spend less.

> "Albert Einstein reportedly bought several variations of the same grey suit so that he wouldn't have to waste time deciding what to wear each morning."

This sounds incredibly joyless -- the aesthetic equivalent of eating huel for every meal.

I'm actually in process of moving our team's CI/CD back to jenkins from github actions. I can see github actions working well for a startup to midsize company but my current project working with a big enterprise company with corporate networks and limitations has made it a nightmare.