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IMO Above average smart people feel better about themselves, if they keep thinking to themselves that there aren't any obscenely smart successful people that ca
by somezero 9y ago
IMO Above average smart people feel better about themselves, if they keep thinking to themselves that there aren't any obscenely smart successful people that can make decisions and produces results that they could have produced only by being part of a large group. Because if they didn't, then their lack of success would have been attributed to them not being lucky or not being at a right place/time, not that they themselves simply are just not as good as they thought they are.
- _yewy 9y agoI think that your reasoning can be applied to a lot of people, independently from the "above average smart" condition. Still, I believe that one can both recognize Musk's abilities and give due credit to the people in the company. As for being at the right place/time, I hope you agree with me in saying that success is a mix of hard work and luck. But again, this is not the point of my first comment. Btw, I had a hard time understanding what you wrote so forgive me if I got the wrong meaning out of it.
- simonh 9y agoSo the headlines for such endeavours should be 'big group of people built a thing'. We all know Musk didn't build this thing himself with a screwdriver. Nobody is confused on that point. This is all just complaining for the sake of technically having half a point some people will join in with you to help complain about it.
- _yewy 9y agoThe headline should be "Company X build thing Y". As for the rest, it's like, you know, your opinion. This being HN, I'll end it here.