Agree. Very hard problems or big investments (e.g. rail network, infrastructure at a country level, basic research with high risk of failure that will take decades) you usually have some form of state agency running it.
PS: have not heard a good word about academia from numerous friends in it. Might be regional (EU) but still...
I cannot second this enough.
Uncle Bob et all have done imeasurable bad to a lot past and future devs generations.
Advocating for a perverted cloudy way of overengineered sw that builds cvs and horrible enterprise sw.
There are much better ppl to read out there. Anyone actually writing long lived sw. Linus, sam neal, anyone actually DOING it rather than living off self indulgent books.
PS: have not heard a good word about academia from numerous friends in it. Might be regional (EU) but still...