Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals –Gretel Ehrlich. I am writing this on a plane from San Francisco to New York. Together with my colleagues, I am doing a four-city tour showing UL’s new Immersive Software Engineering degree to prospective companies. Given the extraordinary success of the course already, I was expecting the positive reception we got. I was not expecting to spend so much of my time explaining the Irish banking crisis and its parallels to Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse unfolding in front of the eyes of people who considered it part of…

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