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PG is great. What would we do without him? We want a PG in the arena at all times. This article doesn't hit the mark. Startup people don't listen, because they
by barrysteve 4y ago
PG is great. What would we do without him? We want a PG in the arena at all times.
This article doesn't hit the mark. Startup people don't listen, because they're trying to create something new, that nobody else understands (or people who understand are a 'parallel thought threat' like Newton and Liebniz). Counter-intuitivity is in the ballpark, but not quite "it".
Really what an inventor/entrepreneur does is to specialize in a direction or idea no-one else gets or no-one else will understand the way to make it, until it's in MVP or prototype stage. How can that person slam the breaks on the train and start doing rational, sensible things that could extinguish the light of discovery/creation? Not saying that's a good thing, it's what it is.
There's a weird trend online to keep blaming school for poor thinking. It's a cool rhetorical device. Doesn't work for me though. I went to a good school that challenged me to open my mind and is also the basis for faith and way of thinking that gets me to discovery. The patterns I see that others don't, is partially because I hold a tiny candle flame for an older way of thinking that is sorely needed in some spaces.
There's also a quiet truth that there's now two truths. One truth for the established and comfortable, another truth for the man battling for his soul's light. They point mostly in different directions and they don't understand each other so much. It's physically painful to try and synthesize those two truths into one.
More transparency in communication is the way to go. Everyone needs to admit only the old wisdom and knowledge is firm and stable. The more we can admit we don't know what's going on as we go forward, the more we can relate... my probably-wrong 0.02c
- hinkley 4y agoIt's a chicken and egg problem though. Is the idea new because I am a novel, intelligent person gifted with foresight, or is the idea new because I'm a contrarian and am more concerned with changing the world than having a really compelling reason to do so? We talk about people 'losing their way' as Reality chips away at their original idea. And while I'm sure this really does happen to some people, how often is it just a pretty story the person tells themselves that makes them feel good, helps them get through the day, helps them sleep at night? It's much easier to compromise on something you didn't hold that dearly to begin with. Anything else that helps you sleep at night (like not worrying about payroll) makes a fine substitute, especially if you don't look at it too closely.
- barrysteve 4y agoNobody is made from one divine moment. There are many good ideas. Lose one and another comes. Executing on them is difficult if the charging bull has to be asked to serve two gods. Can you lash reigns to the bull without keeping the bull from it's target?