Forward Deployed Victorian: the joke that Victorian elites won on soft skills, not STEM
floguo · x · 2026-10-09
An AI-industry-flavored meme retweet dubbing Victorian British elites the original "Forward Deployed Engineers." The quoted essay argues Victorian elites slept late, drank constantly, worked short hours and knew little science—yet were hugely effective, likely because their system weighted soft skills, team-building and intra-elite networking: office hours ran roughly 11am to 5pm with a multi-course wine lunch. A counterpoint to narratives blaming today's "soft, humanities-educated elites."
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