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The article is more interesting as an insight into Tim's mind. He thinks very highly of himself. He claims that he alone organizes and launches all the O'Reil
by seiji 17y ago
The article is more interesting as an insight into Tim's mind. He thinks very highly of himself. He claims that he alone organizes and launches all the O'Reilly conferences.
Maybe it was done for brevity, or maybe he alone truly is the heart of the company. I would feel uncomfortable taking sole credit for organizing and launching conferences without acknowledging the few hundred people who actually do the work.
- jacobolus 17y agoI don’t think when he says he’ll talk about “the rationale behind conferences I organize” he’s trying to imply he’s solely responsible for them. One thing that leaders of companies (or any other organizations) do is articulate the vision behind their institutions’ actions. Using the first person for that purpose is pretty common. (Maybe presumptuous, but I don’t think by intent.)
- gojomo 17y agoIt's a private company, named after him, over which I suspect he has near-total ownership. It's perfectly fair for him to describe it's activities as his own, in the first person. (And that's even without recourse to the common practice of synecdochally using the leader of an organization to represent the whole.)