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I just feel like the example Ben Horowitz gave here is likely colored by his experience. Were his gut feelings really foretelling the dot-com crash? How many
by mips_avatar 7y ago
I just feel like the example Ben Horowitz gave here is likely colored by his experience. Were his gut feelings really foretelling the dot-com crash? How many times were similar anxieties wrong?
- doitLP 7y agoThe point though is how you handle it, not necessarily that you were a good fortune teller or not. What I’m not quite clear on is how he would’ve handled the situation differently by “running towards” the fear. Handle the building search personally? Letting the Fire Marshall shut him down? Act on his gut feeling that something was wrong and start slow slowing down? Those don’t seem like that’s what he meant. Maybe I would understand more if I knew more of his story.
- mips_avatar 7y agoI personally am a little too paranoid to act on most of my suspicions. So running towards all my fears would lead to me tackling mostly false positives. I think that's probably a growth area for me.