In (physical) high-tech engineering, like the blue led, it seems there is a pattern: extremely competent people are going against all their peers and the people in charge (usually the worst).

... That one time they put Galileo’s head on the block.

Veritasium is storytelling. The stories of the people behind these discoveries—the ones that follow a hero’s arc—are insanely compelling.

Well... there is a pattern...