What a fucking man-baby. One thing I have always hated in places I’ve worked is any culture of “competitor hating”. You probably know exactly the sort of thing

What a fucking man-baby. One thing I have always hated in places I’ve worked is any culture of “competitor hating”. You probably know exactly the sort of thing I mean - the pervasive message that your company is better, and your products are better because your team is better and the competitors are all shitty and only idiots would use them, and if you could only get customers to understand how much better your product was then you’d have the whole market, and… It results in this toxic mindset where people, teams and companies begin to believe their own hubris. Sometimes, our competitors are better than us. Sometimes that advantage is fairly achieved; sometimes it isn’t. But it’s always seemed to me that it’s more effective to have a relatively neutral and objective view of the market and competitors - realising that sometimes you can learn valuable things from them. I’m sure it’s mostly a disease that affects smaller teams, but larger companies are not immune.