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This is silly. Don't reduce me to some risk averse weakling because I'm not willing to put my neck out for strangers for little to no reward. If you're like tha
by bt4u2 9y ago
This is silly. Don't reduce me to some risk averse weakling because I'm not willing to put my neck out for strangers for little to no reward. If you're like that, and you regularly go to Africa to help people, more power to you. I'm not. Most people are not.
- sokoloff 9y ago> I'm not willing to put my neck out for strangers for little to no reward Part of my point is that is often exactly what is required of leaders.
- bt4u2 9y agoNo good leader is taking unnecessary risks. In fact, if you study history, taking unnecessary risks has been the downfall of many otherwise great leaders
- sokoloff 9y agoIMO, everyone who has left a steady job to found a company has taken an unnecessary risk.
- bt4u2 9y agoThat's a very subjective definition of unnecessary risk. Clearly there are potential rewards (ev+ if you're into poker or ai) in starting your own company. Helping a stranger get promoted? At the risk of ending your career (a massive loss for most people)? With the only reward being feeling good for Doing The Right Thing (tm)? Not so much
- sokoloff 9y ago> Clearly there are potential rewards (ev+ if you're into poker or ai) in starting your own company. That a risk is +EV does not make it a necessary risk.
- bt4u2 9y agoSurely a more necessary risk than ev-, wouldn't you agree?
- sokoloff 9y agoMore advisable? Yes. More necessary? No.
- bt4u2 9y agoOkay then. It took you a while, and a few unnecessary (ho ho ho) downvotes of my posts but we finally agree: The smart move for any male leader is to never spend any 1on1 time with female subordinates, and unfortunately ignore how that might affect her career
- sokoloff 9y agoTo be clear: I do not agree. How you reach that conclusion and seem to claim that to be an inevitable/logical chain of reasoning is literally beyond my understanding. I started this subthread with the claim that an interesting life is full of risks and that leaders must be willing to take risks that do not have any obvious selfish benefit. For the record, I have not downvoted a single one of your posts. (You can't downvote posts that are in reply to one of your own anyway, but I haven't downvoted any others either.)
- dang 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676851 and marked it off-topic.
- bt4u2 9y agoYou did it 1 comment too late. Please fix