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The idea of faking it until you make it is exactly what Linus needs. Most of the point of communication is for the other person, especially giving feedback on p
by ritchiea 8y ago
The idea of faking it until you make it is exactly what Linus needs. Most of the point of communication is for the other person, especially giving feedback on patches. We all need to vent but we shouldn't vent at the people below us in an organization. Venting is for a counselor, and maybe a close peer? And it's ok if he's frustrated with people, he just shouldn't take it out on them.
Maybe he could find someone to get his own frustrations out to, while only sharing the productive, practical code related aspects with his developers.
- Nasrudith 8y agoPersonally I consider fake it until you make it an incredibly dangerous ideal. That is how you get the Great Leap Forward, Banzai Charges, and Theranos. It leads to far too many delusions that become the seeds of downfall. Better to say in the case of Theranos state that the initial idea is proving non-viable but we have assembled a good talent base in biotech. We technically could liquidate the existing investment but that wouldn't work well for recovering the assets. We can pivot to find tests that do work on fingertip blood other than existing glucose or other areas of research instead would have kept Holmes out of prison and potentially gotten a success out of it. Failure happens and an honest postmortem with a way forward is better than going ponzi.
- digitaLandscape 8y agoIt takes a special kind of motivated stupidity to project from Linus' statement to Theranos. Stop trolling.
- scrollaway 8y agoHoly hell, watch the aggression. The person you're replying to is addressing the specific "fake it till you make it" statement, not "Linus". Your post and attitude are completely inappropriate.
- ritchiea 8y agoIt is quite a stretch to compare making yourself be kind to a colleague or underling despite your own frustrations with defrauding investors.