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> It's not arrogance if it is true. Trust is a slippery thing, given it can be swayed by biases. So is blaming others, which is exactly what you are doing with

> It's not arrogance if it is true. Trust is a slippery thing, given it can be swayed by biases. So is blaming others, which is exactly what you are doing with your comment. Arrogance comes from blame based on a comparison operation to the one doing the comparison. There's clearly biases involved in that operation. The quotes you are using in your third paragraph are a way for you to speak for others, which is exactly the type of arrogance being referred to in the article. Let others speak for their own thoughts and actions. Stick to your own and we'll all get along!

justin_vanw 11y ago
If you define arrogance too broadly, then every person who ever tried to do anything competitive is arrogant. Starting a company is arrogant, because to be successful you will have to be better than your competition, and since maybe you are just biased and maybe you aren't actually better than your competition, automatically you are arrogant? Your definition makes almost every single thing every person does (apart from watching TV) arrogance. Edit: trimmed this to my core response
- restalis 11y ago
  "Your definition makes almost every single thing every person does (apart from watching TV) arrogance." I think that watching TV has no inherent prevention from being arrogant, so TV watchers must be arrogant too! (Armchair quarterbacks anyone? Hell, the more I think about it the more convinced I am that the article itself was written by some sort of armchair [whatever]!)
- kordless 11y ago
  Arrogance is saying what you are doing is better than what I'm doing, without fully understanding what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. That is the definition of judgement as well. Competition is gaining resources others are also attempting to obtain. When the trust channels get double bound by others, VCs for example, judgement and arrogance appears. I view competitive arrogance as a special type of judgement that indicates another's approach to the problem you are solving will NOT be competitive. Again, it's easier to judge others than it is yourself. Saying something doesn't make it true. Competition can occur without judgement. Just look at life, less the human equation.

justin_vanw 11y ago

If you define arrogance too broadly, then every person who ever tried to do anything competitive is arrogant. Starting a company is arrogant, because to be successful you will have to be better than your competition, and since maybe you are just biased and maybe you aren't actually better than your competition, automatically you are arrogant? Your definition makes almost every single thing every person does (apart from watching TV) arrogance. Edit: trimmed this to my core response

restalis 11y ago
"Your definition makes almost every single thing every person does (apart from watching TV) arrogance." I think that watching TV has no inherent prevention from being arrogant, so TV watchers must be arrogant too! (Armchair quarterbacks anyone? Hell, the more I think about it the more convinced I am that the article itself was written by some sort of armchair [whatever]!)
kordless 11y ago
Arrogance is saying what you are doing is better than what I'm doing, without fully understanding what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. That is the definition of judgement as well. Competition is gaining resources others are also attempting to obtain. When the trust channels get double bound by others, VCs for example, judgement and arrogance appears. I view competitive arrogance as a special type of judgement that indicates another's approach to the problem you are solving will NOT be competitive. Again, it's easier to judge others than it is yourself. Saying something doesn't make it true. Competition can occur without judgement. Just look at life, less the human equation.