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I'm not the OP but I would guess it's because most of the tech leaders aren't there because they did something great and are all knowing, but more because they
by Clubber 8y ago
I'm not the OP but I would guess it's because most of the tech leaders aren't there because they did something great and are all knowing, but more because they were at the right place at the right time and met the right people. You could replace any of those people with 10,000 other people with similar qualifications and they would do just as well.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoPretty much this, with the added nuance of them using social capital (which can be engineered, e.g. Twitter following) and good old-fashioned persuasion as a stand in for real competence. The 'Appeal to Authority' fallacy creates a feedback loop here too. They mislead to gain authority. They use that new authority to gain more opportunities to mislead.