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Eh, I think you’re reading into it too much. The reality is that organizations accrue a set of both tested and untested beliefs. A lot of untested beliefs (i.e.
by ethanbond 3y ago
Eh, I think you’re reading into it too much. The reality is that organizations accrue a set of both tested and untested beliefs. A lot of untested beliefs (i.e. someone told me X will turn out badly so I will just avoid doing X) are useful heuristics to avoid relearning expensive lessons, but some untested beliefs are just wrong. Circumstances have changed or they were never right in the first place and need to be tested again. New people (and especially young people, but not necessarily) are good at doing that — sometimes deliberately and sometimes by accident.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago> but some untested beliefs are just wrong. Absolutely. I didn't mention people that tell you to stay away from the edge. In many cases, timidity (often a reaction to past trauma) can be debilitating. I remember when I was interviewing at startups, and Every. Single. One. -Every one, described themselves as "unicorns." The harsh reality is that, for every unicorn, prancing around the tech industry, there's a charnel pit, filled with the corpses of 10,000 goats and jackasses, with horns glued to their foreheads. Not all timidity is bad, and, sometimes, ignoring warnings can be quite fatal.