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> Group 1: People actually shipping ideas, launching businesses, doing creative work, taking risks and sharing first-hand learnings. > Group 2: People writing
by Igelau 5y ago
> Group 1: People actually shipping ideas, launching businesses, doing creative work, taking risks and sharing first-hand learnings.
> Group 2: People writing about group 1 in clear, concise, accessible language.
> [And here rests the line of bullshit demarcation…]
> Group 3: People aggregating the learnings of group 2, passing it off as first-hand wisdom.
> Group 4: People aggregating the learnings of group 3, believing they are as worthy of praise as the people in group 1.
> Groups 5+: And downward...
Generalize this and reinforce it through a system of upvotes/downvotes and you have every the fate of every topical subreddit of any considerable size.
- unraveller 5y agoIt's bullshit all the way up. The nature of business necessitates info asymmetry, means you'll never find an honest group 1 individual (or a popular group 2), they're always angling, hyping, or associating with symbols as they trained themselves to. The closest there is to a philosopher businessman is probably Seneca, but maybe he was just a moralising game theorist ahead of his time like Taleb (who claims Sextus Empiricus laid it all out bare in terms of risk/belief).