Programmers who make good CEO's are rare. I don't think I've met a programmer who would make a good president.
Agreed, but have you met a lot of lawyers who would make good CEOs or presidents? I think you may be talking about rare people.
Just as an interesting reference point, people with undergraduate engineering degrees are actually represented as CEOs in the fortune 500 far out of proportion to their percentage of the undergraduate degree population. I believe it's reverse for government, though.
Of course, programming != engineering, though a lot of the programmers I know did major in some kind of STEM field.
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Programmers who make good CEO's are rare. I don't think I've met a programmer who would make a good president.
Agreed, but have you met a lot of lawyers who would make good CEOs or presidents? I think you may be talking about rare people.
Just as an interesting reference point, people with undergraduate engineering degrees are actually represented as CEOs in the fortune 500 far out of proportion to their percentage of the undergraduate degree population. I believe it's reverse for government, though.
Of course, programming != engineering, though a lot of the programmers I know did major in some kind of STEM field.