The tech industry is in the boring hill-climbing phase.

Hill-climbing takes grit, dependability, and efficiency.

Mass-produced.

Hill-finding takes taste, craft, and cleverness.

Artisanal.

At the beginning of an era everyone focuses on hill-climbing.

At the beginning of the era you need hill-finding.

You need hills to climb.

It's only once you're on a hill where you haven't yet reached the top that it makes sense to climb.

Someone who has focused on hill-climbing will forget the deep magic of hill finding.

This manifests directly in the role of the PM today no longer being artisanal and instead being more about program management.

We're in the hill climbing phase of PMing.

PMs don't decide anymore, the metrics do.

The humans are subservient to metrics.

The hill -finding artisanal PMs didn't go away.

They're hanging out within bureaucracies they hate, biding their time.

Thinking they're alone.

Ready for the paradigm to change, not even aware they're missing anything.

"I guess this is just the way the world works, no use fighting it"