Thanks very much for the reply and the links and comments. I hadn’t read Beyond Smart before and I just gave it a read. I too disagree with many of the things i

Thanks very much for the reply and the links and comments. I hadn’t read Beyond Smart before and I just gave it a read. I too disagree with many of the things in that essay. Almost everything, it seems, from the premise (which seems to be that having good new ideas is “the thing most to be desired”) to the importance of new ideas to the point you made which includes the words “dominance hierarchy” which taken at face value seem incredibly short-sighted. Has he heard of cooperation? Life is far from a zero-sum game. We as a species are capable of much, much more. Nonetheless, I couched my language in my original post: > I believe that on this subject, pg knows more than I likely ever will. His users are early stage startups… I stand by my original words. I just probably won’t bother reading anything pg writes unless it is on the topic of startups.