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Anyone can make software with unlimited VC funds and few, if any, requirements and expectations. Not everyone can make software for over 300 million people in a centuries-old bureaucracy.

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As someone currently working in the nuclear industry, I can comment that the pervasive bureaucratic fog of war adds a level of mental overhead that means you really have to challenge yourself to still get decent thoughts converted to action by the end of the day.

If I leave this industry I feel like my over-exercised skill of juggling this mental overhead will be pretty useful in places where the burden is lower. I'll feel like I have an extra brain just laying around in reserve.

A bureaucracy whose elected representatives and lobbyists that generally don't like your agency and would be more than happy to see it all but shut down.

It is nice to imagine that elected representatives have the same values as us voters.

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