The keywords there are “aimless” and “incremental”. I think those properties are correctly valued in any fast-paced workplace.
I think one of the things that career inventors need to overcome is selling themselves. Often the fun part is in the work of inventing, but conveying the value of the process is just as important and less straightforward.
Did you even read his post? He explicitly stated that the multi-role problem is what is killing most inventions. If everyone would have to be his own salesman- there wouldnt be any inventors at all- just people trying to sell each other rocks for berries.
What is needed is a inventor currency- that allows for a exchange of services and favours, without it being abused as a source of cheap labour.
We see this happen in ICO-land especially. A lot of ideas are being marketed with absolutely zero substance or scientific innovation behind them.
Innovators like Berners-lee, Shawn Fanning, Satoshi Nakamoto, etc. plant seeds which grow into trees. Businessmen, lawmen, and psychology-manipulators fight over who gets to pick the fruit, sometimes they destroy the tree in the process. Sometimes, they even say that the fruit is not allowed to exist.
This is a massive inequity in power, and it's going to change soon. "Management" is the enemy of innovation. I've stopped looking at what old, rich, white and asian men are doing, and started looking more at what youth are doing.
Silicon Valley undervalues the aimless tinkerers and overvalues the incremental bootcamp coders.