job, education, grammar, race, sex, take your pick.

I’m gonna go with “calf muscles”.

Most of my programming career was spent working for small consulting firms that created custom software for (relatively) small clients. The most important skill by far was the ability to talk to customers (and listen to them as well) in order to understand what they needed the custom software to actually do. Not only is this skill not taught in the Computer Science curriculum, it’s not even conceived of as a thing. My bosses were constantly hiring freshly-minted CS grads and could not understand why I rejected having them placed on my team. I instead always looked for people that had experience not just with programming but with things outside of the programming world entirely.

That being said, I sure would not have wanted a freshly-minted philosophy grad either, for the same reason.

convince investment bankers not to kill themselves?

Sometimes there is great value in a job done poorly.

“Now excuse me I’m going to go behead some counterfeiters.”

“Noooooooooo!” -Albert Einstein

Why would ancient humans have bothered growing bong gourds when they could have just punched holes in empty beer cans instead?

Some fun facts: Grover Krantz, the originator of the concept of human persistence hunting (which Wikipedia labels “conjecture”), was better-known as a staunch advocate for the existence of Bigfoot (there is of course no such thing as Bigfoot - it’s obviously a Yeti in a gorilla suit). Interestingly, he didn’t propose it as an explanation for bipedality, one of the unique characteristics of the human lineage, but rather as an explanation for our big brains, speculating that bigger brains would allow persistence hunters to survive a large fraction of their brain neurons dying from the heat stress that would result from long-distance running during the day.

For apparently no reason, Krantz’ skeleton and that of his favorite dog are on display at the Smithsonian.